Useful Magento Snippets For Your Next Project

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Creating and calling custom attribute if textbox or textarea

getAttributeName() ?>

if dropdown

  getAttributeText('shirt_size') ?>

Calling Page Title Anywhere in the PHTML

getBlock('head')->getTitle(); ?>

Display Category Product in Product View

getProduct()->getCategory() ? $this->getProduct()->getCategory()->getName() : 'no category') ?>

Display Short Description

load($_item->getProductId()); echo $custom->getShortDescription(); ?>

Display Grandtotal

formatPrice(Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal()); ?>