steffen-wirth
11/6/2015 - 7:40 AM

load media gallery http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5900522/how-to-load-products-media-gallery-along-with-the-collection

load media gallery http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5900522/how-to-load-products-media-gallery-along-with-the-collection

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class My_Module_Block_Name extends Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_View_Abstract
{

/** @var null|Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Attribute */
protected static $_mediaGalleryBackend = null;

public function getGalleryImages()
{
    $product = $this->getProduct();
    $this->_getBackend()->afterLoad($product);
    $collection = $product->getMediaGalleryImages();

    return $collection;
}


/**
 * @return Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Attribute
 */
protected function _getBackend() {
    if (self::$_mediaGalleryBackend === null) {

        $mediaGallery = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')
            ->getAttribute(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product::ENTITY, 'media_gallery');

        self::$_mediaGalleryBackend = $mediaGallery->getBackend();
    }

    return self::$_mediaGalleryBackend;
}

}