Magento custom attribute default value not showing in front end

Question

Hi there,

I have added some custom attributes to the products in the admin section of our Magento 1.3.2.1 installation and I've given some of those attributes default values. The problem is that the default values aren't being returned when I try to get the attribute from the product object as follows:

$_product->getCode()

Logically, I would imagine that the default value gets returned if there isn't one stored against the product, but this doesn't seem to be the case (unless I'm plainly missing something).

The list below is all the current settings for one of the attributes that isn't returning the default value set.

Attribute Properties:

Attribute Code: code

Scope: Store View

Catalog Input Type for Store Owner: Text Field

Default value: value

Unique Value: No

Values Required: No

Input Validation for Store Owner: None

Apply To: All Product Types

Frontend Properties:

Use in quick search: No

Use in advanced search: No

Comparable on Front-end: No

Use In Layered Navigation: No

Use In Search Results Layered Navigation: No

Use for Price Rule Conditions: No

Position: 0

Allow HTML-tags on Front-end: Yes

Visible on Product View Page on Front-end: Yes

Used in product listing: Yes

Used for sorting in product listing: No

Thanks for your help! Remy

Answer 1

Hi Remy

I have the same problem. Could you figure out a fix for this?

Thanks mollo

Answer 2

It seams that the Mage_Core_Model_Abstract class will not check for attributes in the __get magic method. Try using the getData method instead:

$_product->getData('code');