Magento how to get attribute value by option id? - php

Question

So I have
$attribute_option_id = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product')
->getAttributeRawValue($productId, 'my_attribute', $storeId);
This gives me something like $attribute_option_id = 12345
Now how do I get the (text) value for this id?
Thanks

Answer 1

This should work.
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->setStoreId($storeId)->load($productId);
$text = $product->getAttributeText('my_attribute');
[EDIT]
If you don't want to load the full product you can do a sneaky think. Impersonate a product.
So you get the option id like you already do
$attribute_option_id = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product')->getAttributeRawValue($productId, 'my_attribute', $storeId);
Then create just an empty instance of the product and set some attributes to it.
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
->setStoreId($storeId)
->setData('my_attribute', $attribute_option_id);//the result from above
$text = $product->getAttributeText('my_attribute');
There is already a confirmation that this works. See it here.

Answer 2

Here is a method that is a different approach that works for me.
Assume Known: $_current_productid
$_Current_OptionId = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product')->getAttributeRawValue($_current_productid, $attribute_id,$store_id);
$_write = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_write');
// now $_write is an instance of Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract
$_readresult=$_write->query("SELECT value FROM eav_attribute_option_value WHERE option_id ='".$_Current_OptionId."'");
while ($row = $_readresult->fetch() ) {$_Current_OptionValue=$row['value'];}