title: Magento Product Collection Select all Attributes
body: <p>I'm trying to create a model that selects a specific product and all it's attributes.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')-&gt;getCollection()-&gt;addAttributeToSelect('*');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But sadly although I have done this hundreds of times before, we're having a Magento moment...</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo $products-&gt;getSelect()-&gt;__toString();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>reveals that ->addAttributeToSelect is ignoring me. </p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT `e`.* FROM `catalog_product_entity` AS `e`
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Of course in typical Magento fashion there are no exceptions or errors of any kinds. </p>
  
  <p>I am calling these methods in my own Adminhtml Grid block, caching is disabled (even though I know Magento still caches some model data when caching is disabled(i deleted var/cache).</p>
  
  <p>I can't even do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-&gt;addAttributeToSelect('name');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm really starting to loose my patience with this platform, I've been using it for 4 months and it seems to waste more time than it saves. Any help would be a life saver!</p>