Magento: getAttributeText not working

Question

I have a drop-down attribute called "Housing" (the attribute code is "housing"). I want to get the text of the selected option for the product, but the getAttributeText function returns nothing.

My code is:

$product_object = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId); $housing = $product_object->getHousing(); echo $housing; echo "<br>"; $housing = $product_object->getAttributeText('housing'); echo $housing; echo "<br>"; $housing = $product_object->getHousingText(); echo $housing; echo "<br>"; 

The getHousing function returns the correct parameter identifier, but "getAttributeText" and "getHousingText" returns nothing.

Any ideas why?

Answer 1

to try

 $prod = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId); $housing = $prod->getResource()->getAttribute('housing')->getFrontend()->getValue($prod); echo $housing; 

Answer 2

Try using the following code:

 $product_object->getData('housing')