Magento 1.5 How to get attribute id by attribute code

Magento uses attribute_id  as a foreign key from many tables to make relationship with the eav_attribute table. Because the attribute ID is auto increment and it will be different from many Magento databases and you only know the attribute code, so you want to retrieve the attribute ID  from attribute code?

Table eav_attribute

There is a way to get attribute_id of an attribute from its code. E.g. you want to get attribute id by an attribute code “manufacturer”

$eavAttribute = new Mage_Eav_Model_Mysql4_Entity_Attribute(); $code = $eavAttribute->getIdByCode('catalog_product', 'manufacturer');

Checked at

• Magento 1.5.1