Fatal Error: Call to a member function getProductUrl()

Question

When I am trying to use the code

Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku', $sku2)->getProductUrl();

in my cart page i am getting the error as

Fatal Error: Call to a member function getProductUrl() in boolean

Can anyone kindly tell me why am I getting this.

Answer 1

You get this error, because Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku', $sku2) just returns false. Please check your SKU ($sku2) ... if this is invalid, you'll see this error.

I'd recommend adding a check if product exists ...

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku', $sku2);
if ($product->getId()) {
    echo $product->getProductUrl();
}

Answer 2

I resolved it by using the following line of code instead of the code that I have mentioned in the question above.

Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($sku2)->getProductUrl();