How to get a excerpt content of a node?

Question

I am having a node reference.How can i get its excerpt content?

For getting title or body we use:-

print $entry->title;
print $entry->body;

How i can get the excerpt of that node.(i am using excerpt module)

Answer 1

Can you var_dump $entry? Does it have more data?

Answer 2

For the stock teaser, it would be $entry->teaser but your best bet is to use

drupal_set_message(print_r($entry, true))

and look through the key=>value pairs.

For a better looking array, install the Devel module and use

dsm($entry) 

Answer 3

The teaser of a node is contained in $entry->teaser; if the field is not initialized, then the function node_teaser() is the function used to build the teaser.

If the module is saving a custom value as excerpt, you should verify which is the property used from the module (I would check $entry->excerpt, though).
I would suggest you to install Devel, which has some debug functions, including dsm() that allows to inspect any PHP value, and also adds a tab "Devel" for each node.