Magento 1.9 - Get all options of a dropdown or multiselect attribute in magento

Below is the example code.

this may be any attribute code

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1	$arg_attribute = "manufacturer";

Object of attribute model

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1	$attribute_model = Mage::getModel('eav/entity_attribute');

Object of attribute options model

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$attribute_options_model= Mage::getModel('eav/entity_attribute_source_table') ; $attribute_code = $attribute_model->getIdByCode('catalog_product', $arg_attribute); $attribute = $attribute_model->load($attribute_code); $attribute_table =$attribute_options_model->setAttribute($attribute);

Getting all options

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1	$options = $attribute_options_model->getAllOptions(false);

Printing all options of particular attribute

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1	print_r($options);

Below is comple code

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//this may be any attribute code $arg_attribute = "manufacturer";   //Object of attribute model $attribute_model = Mage::getModel('eav/entity_attribute');   //Object of attribute options model $attribute_options_model= Mage::getModel('eav/entity_attribute_source_table') ; $attribute_code = $attribute_model->getIdByCode('catalog_product', $arg_attribute); $attribute = $attribute_model->load($attribute_code); $attribute_table =$attribute_options_model->setAttribute($attribute);     //Getting all options $options = $attribute_options_model->getAllOptions(false);   //Printing all options of particular attribute print_r($options);