Magento custom image attribute. How do I get in frontend?

Question

Hello,

I've added an image attribute with name and label e.g. New Image, new_image.

How do I fetch this from e.g. view.phtml? I thought it would be as simple as

helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'new_image')->resize(150, 150); ?>

But, this is throwing an error.

Does anybody know the correct way to do this?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

There are only a few valid string values for that init call: image, small_image and thumbnail, corresponding to the product attributes for those images. If you want to call the images that way, you'll need to set the new_image to be one of those three images in the administration panel.

Otherwise, look for "gallery" methods on the product, as those will give you all your images to iterate through.

Thanks, Joe