My Custom Attribute not Getting in magento

Question

I have created a custom attribute in Customer Address (govt_id) and it is showing on Adminhtml UI, but when I retrieve the customer address attributes it's not getting it.

my setup code:

<?php

$this->startSetup();

$setup = new Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup('core_setup');


$setup->addAttribute('customer_address', 'govt_id', array(
    'type' => 'varchar',
    'input' => 'text',
    'label' => 'GOVT ID',
    'global' => 1,
    'visible' => 1,
    'required' => 0,
    'user_defined' => 1,
    'default' => '0',
    'visible_on_front' => 0,
));

Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')
    ->getAttribute('customer_address', 'govt_id')
    ->setData('used_in_forms', array('customer_register_address','customer_address_edit','adminhtml_customer_address'))->save();

$this->endSetup();

And i'm getting attributes by using below code

$magentoAttributes = Mage::getModel('customer/address')->getAttributes();
        foreach(array_keys($magentoAttributes) as $att)
        {
            $name = $att;
            $this->magentoOptions[$att] = $name;

        }
        Mage::log( $this->magentoOptions);

Result:

2015-09-14T06:35:15+00:00 DEBUG (7): Array
(
    [entity_id] => entity_id
    [entity_type_id] => entity_type_id
    [increment_id] => increment_id
    [parent_id] => parent_id
    [attribute_set_id] => attribute_set_id
    [created_at] => created_at
    [updated_at] => updated_at
    [prefix] => prefix
    [firstname] => firstname
    [middlename] => middlename
    [lastname] => lastname
    [suffix] => suffix
    [company] => company
    [street] => street
    [city] => city
    [country_id] => country_id
    [region] => region
    [region_id] => region_id
    [postcode] => postcode
    [telephone] => telephone
    [fax] => fax
    [vat_is_valid] => vat_is_valid
    [vat_request_id] => vat_request_id
    [vat_request_date] => vat_request_date
    [vat_request_success] => vat_request_success
    [vat_id] => vat_id
)

Here the govt_id attribute is missing.

I have cleared cache also, but still it's not getting Why?

Did I do anything wrong or is something missing?

Answer 1

Set visible_on_front to 1

Change it from:

$setup->addAttribute('customer_address', 'govt_id', array(
    'type' => 'varchar',
    'input' => 'text',
    'label' => 'GOVT ID',
    'global' => 1,
    'visible' => 1,
    'required' => 0,
    'user_defined' => 1,
    'default' => '0',
    'visible_on_front' => 0,
));

To :

$setup->addAttribute('customer_address', 'govt_id', array(
    'type' => 'varchar',
    'input' => 'text',
    'label' => 'GOVT ID',
    'global' => 1,
    'visible' => 1,
    'required' => 0,
    'user_defined' => 1,
    'default' => '',
    'source' =>   NULL,
    'visible_on_front' => 1
));

For More detail see here:
Adding custom attribute to Customer

Answer 2

To verify this,

Check tables

1. eav_attribute if there is a row with attribute_code = govt_id and entity_type_id as 1

2. If 1 is no, then attribute has not been created, if yes check now in table customer_eav_attribute if the attribute_id exists

3. If 2 is yes, you have successfully created a customer entity attribute

4. Check in table customer customer_form_attribute (this is to check if for the forms you have added an entry has been added to this table)

Check if 3 if the above points are verified, you should have successfully created a customer entity attribute