Short Description lost through Mage::register

Question

So I am trying to get a reference to the current product in my Block with

$product = Mage::registry("current_product");

Which seems to work fine, but the $product->getShortDescription is returning null.

I tried debugging this myself by stepping through the product helper initProduct method and upon inspecting the Product Model, the data is as expected. i.e:

_data["short_description"] = "SOME SHORT DESCRIPTION"

After registering the product

# app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Helper/Product.php
344| // Register current data and dispatch final events
345| Mage::register('current_product', $product);
346| Mage::register('product', $product);

the short description seem to be lost.

_data["short_description"] = null

Has anyone else had this issue? It would be cool to know how to solve it.

NOTE: It could have something to do with the Model rewriting that happens with the registry...

Thanks guys.

Answer 1

you are calling the attribute direct in the product page you have to enable it first from backend. go to admin->catalog->manage attribute and find for short description.

when you click it you will find "Visible on Product View Page on Front-end" make it yes . i hope this will work for you.

Answer 2

You have to load product after that you will get short description

$productId = Mage::registry("current_product")->getId();

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);

echo $product->getShortDescription();