I can't grab region or region_id in Admin Controller - Magento 1.7

Question

I grab the customer through their email in a backend controller:

$baseCustomer = $customerModel->loadByEmail($creationEmail);

Then I grab $customer['default_billing'] to get the ID of the billing address information.

    $cloneBilling = $baseCustomer['default_billing'];
    $baseAddress = Mage::getModel('customer/address')->load($cloneBilling);

From there I'm able to grab the customers firstname, lastname, street, city, postcode, country_id, and telephone.

$cloneCountryId = $baseAddress['country_id'];
        $clonePostcode = $baseAddress['postcode'];
        $cloneCity = $baseAddress['city'];
        $cloneTelephone = $baseAddress['telephone'];
        $cloneStreet = $baseAddress['street'];

TLDR Question: I have the customer and they have an address how do I grab the region and region_id also known as the state?

Answer 1

Take a look at Mage_Customer_Model_Address_Abstract::getRegion(), you'll notice that underlying it is actually a model. In your case, try

$baseAddress->getRegion(); // returns string, eg. Texas
$baseAddress->getRegionId(); // returns numeric, eg. 57
$baseAddress->getRegionModel(); // returns Mage_Directory_Model_Country 
$baseAddress->getRegionCode(); // returns string, eg. TX

[edit] My test code:

$m = Mage::getModel('customer/address')->load(14);
$result[] = $m->getData();
$result[] = $m->getRegionId();
$result[] = $m->getRegion();
$result[] = $m['region'];

Here's the $result:

array(4) { [0] => array(23) { ["entity_id"] => string(2) "14" ["entity_type_id"] => string(1) "2" ["attribute_set_id"] => string(1) "0" ["increment_id"] => NULL ["parent_id"] => string(2) "23" ["created_at"] => string(25) "2013-01-25T11:35:28+08:00" ["updated_at"] => string(19) "2013-02-18 03:11:19" ["is_active"] => string(1) "1" ["prefix"] => NULL ["firstname"] => string(9) "Collage02" ["middlename"] => NULL ["lastname"] => string(4) "test" ["suffix"] => NULL ["company"] => NULL ["city"] => string(9) "Putrajaya" ["country_id"] => string(2) "MY" ["region"] => string(9) "WP Labuan" ["postcode"] => string(5) "72510" ["telephone"] => string(10) "0375216584" ["fax"] => NULL ["vat_id"] => NULL ["region_id"] => string(3) "500" ["street"] => string(9) "Presint 6" } [1] => int(500) [2] => string(12) "WP Putrajaya" [3] => string(12) "WP Putrajaya" }

One reason the region info is empty could be that it is empty. You can check it by looking at the result of print_r($baseAddress->getData());