how to display product detail description on product listing page?

magento magento-1.4
kharonayee picture kharonayee · May 17, 2011 · Viewed 58.7k times · Source

I want to show a detailed product description after a short description on the product listing page.

I'm doing this

<?
echo $_product->getDescription();
?>

but nothing shows up.

I also tried this

Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_product->getProductId())->getDescription();

but to no success.

Answer

Sergey picture Sergey · May 17, 2011

Try setting product attribute for descrption field "Used in Product Listing" to "YES". That will solve your problem and avoid redundant model load

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