get an array of all a products attributes in magento

Question

I cannot figure this out!

I am trying to get a list of a products attributes into an array on the list.phtml page. I have tried everything. I have seen a lot of solution

Answer 1

It's rather easy and gives you an array of available product attribute names

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load('product_id');
$attributeNames = array_keys($product->getData());
print_r($attributeNames);

If you need a attribute object collection you can call

$product->getAttributes();

If you need a product collection and after that you can perform the previously mentioned ways on each collection member

Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();