title: Magento : getAttributeText doesn't work
body: <p>I have a dropdown attribute called "Housing" (attribute code "housing").
  I want to get the text of the selected option for a product but the "getAttributeText" function returns nothing.</p>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$product_object = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')-&gt;load($productId);
  $housing = $product_object-&gt;getHousing();
  echo $housing;
  echo "&lt;br&gt;";
  
  $housing = $product_object-&gt;getAttributeText('housing');
  echo $housing;
  echo "&lt;br&gt;";
  
  $housing = $product_object-&gt;getHousingText();
  echo $housing;
  echo "&lt;br&gt;";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The function getHousing returns the correct option id but "getAttributeText" and "getHousingText" doesn't return anything.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas why?</p>