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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.

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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.

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  • Sorry, should have said I ensured it is Visible on Product View Page on Frontend – Nathaniel Rogers Nov 23 '16 at 5:07
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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();
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  • Thanks for your answer so quickly. This definitely would work, it's just to my understanding, when we register a model through the registry, it is a 'state' of that model, meaning if the model is saved after loading, I thought it would be loaded when getting it from the registry again. I have a sneaking suspicion there's a bug in the registering of models. I was hoping I could avoid having to 're'-load the product after getting it from the registry. – Nathaniel Rogers Nov 23 '16 at 5:10
  • You have tried with $product->getShortDescription() bracket in end of description? – Prashant Valanda Nov 23 '16 at 5:16
  • oh, most definitely. I think there might be a core issue with textarea values being saved in the registry. It seems to work fine if my short description doesn't have line separators in them. I know a little bit more about coding than to look for a property when I meant a function. Didn't think it would matter as I was explaining a process rather than detailing the actual code I wrote :) So in short, yes I ran the function $this->getShortDescription() – Nathaniel Rogers Nov 23 '16 at 5:29

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