how to display customly added attribute columns value in the frontend of magento

Question

I recently added a 'tooltip description' column to an attribute. I used this following code

$fieldset->addField('tooltip', 'text', array(
    'name' => 'tooltip',
    'label' => Mage::helper('catalog')->__('Tooltip'),
    'title' => Mage::helper('catalog')->__('Tooltip')
));

to add a field in my app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\Catalog\Product\Attribute\Edit\Tab\Main.php. This adds the extra field to the attribute-edit screen. I also added a column with type TEXT in the eav_attribute table to make sure the property gets saved when editing your attribute. And it worked perfectly in the backend. See the following Image:

Now I want to show the Tooltip Description value in frontend where the attributes value are shown....say in attributes.phtml page. So what is the code to dispaly it in frontend.

Answer 1

Try following

<?php 
foreach ($this->getAttributes() as $_attribute){ 
    echo $_attribute->getTooltip();
}
?>

UPDATE

$attribute_code = $_data['code']; 
$attribute_details = Mage::getSingleton("eav/config")->getAttribute('catalog_product', $attribute_code); 
$attribute = $attribute_details->getData(); // returns array 


echo "<pre>";
print_r($attribute);