Accessing custom attribute on success.phtml

Question

I have a custom attribute which i created to track the profit of each item.

For analytical purposes, I need to add this to a variable in JS and append it to a url string.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get access to the attribute and every time I try to echo the value, it returns null.

Here is the code;

$orderObj = Mage::getModel(’sales/order’)->loadByIncrementId($this->getOrderId()); 
$orderItems = $orderObj->getAllItems(); 
$basket = ‘’; 
$mail_body = ‘’; 
foreach($orderItems as $item) 
{ 
$basket .= $item->getSku() .’|’. number_format($item->getRowTotal(), 2, ‘.’, ‘,’) .’|’. round($item->getQtyOrdered()) . ‘,’; 
}

foreach($orderItems as $item) { 
$product_item = Mage::getModel(’catalog/product’)->load($this->getProductId()); 
$mail_body .= $product_item->getAttributeText(’profit’); 
$mail_body .= “---\n\n”; 
}

the main code which I am trying to get to work is in the foreach.

Any ideas why this does'nt return a value?

Answer 1

Try

$order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->loadByIncrementId($this->getOrderId());
$items = $order->getItemsCollection();

foreach($items as $item){
  $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($item->getProductId());
  echo $product->getAttributeText('profit');
}

Answer 2

$custom = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($item->getProductId());

echo $custom->getAttributeText('profit');

OR

This is the working solution, it's so simple, yet I don't understand:

<?php
$custom = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_item->getProductId());
echo $custom->getAttributeText('profit');
?>

hope this will sure help you.