title: Echo short description for related products
body: <p>Is there a way to echo the short description foreach related product? </p>
  
  <p>I've tried to use this code but it doesn't display the description of each product:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo nl2br($this-&gt;getProduct()-&gt;getDescription()) ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>also</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo $_helper-&gt;productAttribute($_item, nl2br($_item-&gt;getShortDescription()), 'short_description') ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to do this for related products? If anyone knows please point me in the right direction.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php if($this-&gt;getItems()-&gt;getSize()): ?&gt;
  &lt;div class="block block-related"&gt;
      &lt;div class="block-title"&gt;
          &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Related Products') ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="block-content"&gt;
          &lt;p class="block-subtitle"&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Check items to add to the cart or add to your wishlist') ?&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;div class="form-horizontal"&gt;
          &lt;?php foreach($this-&gt;getItems() as $_item): ?&gt;
               &lt;div class="control-group"&gt;
                      &lt;label for="related-checkbox&lt;?php echo $_item-&gt;getId() ?&gt;" class="control-label"&gt;
                          &lt;a class="fancybox static-thumbs pull-left" href="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('catalog/image')-&gt;init($_item, 'small_image')-&gt;resize(500, 450); ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;htmlEscape($_item-&gt;getName()) ?&gt;" &gt;&lt;img src="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('catalog/image')-&gt;init($_item, 'small_image')-&gt;resize(135, 135) ?&gt;" width="135" height="135" alt="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;htmlEscape($_item-&gt;getName()) ?&gt;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
                      &lt;/label&gt;
  &lt;div class="controls"&gt;
  &lt;label class="checkbox"&gt;
          &lt;?php if(!$_item-&gt;isComposite() &amp;&amp; $_item-&gt;isSaleable()): ?&gt;
              &lt;?php if (!$_item-&gt;getRequiredOptions()): ?&gt;
                  &lt;input type="checkbox" class="checkbox related-checkbox" id="related-checkbox&lt;?php echo $_item-&gt;getId() ?&gt;" name="related_products[]" value="&lt;?php echo $_item-&gt;getId() ?&gt;" /&gt;
          &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
      &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
  &lt;?php if ($this-&gt;helper('wishlist')-&gt;isAllow()) : ?&gt;
      &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getAddToWishlistUrl($_item) ?&gt;" class="pull-right" title="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Add to Wishlist') ?&gt;" rel="tooltip"&gt;&lt;span class="icon-check"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  
  &lt;p class="product-name span6"&gt;
   &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $_item-&gt;getProductUrl() ?&gt;" class="product-title"&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;htmlEscape($_item-&gt;getName()) ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
   &lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;?php echo nl2br($this-&gt;getProduct($_item)-&gt;getDescription()) ?&gt;
  &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;form action="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getAddToCartUrl($_item) ?&gt;" method="post"&gt;
  &lt;fieldset&gt;
    &lt;label class="product-name"&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Quantity:'); ?&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
    &lt;select name="qty" class="span1"&gt;
    &lt;?php $i = 1 ?&gt;
    &lt;?php do { ?&gt;
      &lt;option value="&lt;?php echo $i?&gt;"&gt;
        &lt;?php echo $i?&gt;
        &lt;?php $i++ ?&gt;
      &lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;?php } while ($i &lt;= (int)Mage::getModel('cataloginventory/stock_item')-&gt;loadByProduct($_item)-&gt;getMaxSaleQty()) ?&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;div class="clearfix"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;button class="btn btn-danger" data-loading-text="PLease wait..."&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Add to Cart') ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/button&gt;
  &lt;span id='ajax_loader' style='display:none'&gt;&lt;img src='&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getSkinUrl('images/opc-ajax-loader.gif')?&gt;'/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;            
  &lt;/fieldset&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
  &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getPriceHtml($_item, true, '-related') ?&gt;
  &lt;/label&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;hr /&gt;
          &lt;?php endforeach ?&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>