Show product attributes in list.phtml - Magento

Question

Hello I have read many posts about this, and while it works its not complete.

For example; Attribute 1= shoesize and attribute 2 = shoe color. Both are in a dropdown

Answer 1

Here is the code get attribute name and value that that doesn't belongs to any product

$attributeCode = 'YOUR_ATTRIBUTE_CODE';

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');

$productCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('eav/entity_attribute_collection')
   ->setEntityTypeFilter($product->getResource()->getTypeId())
   ->addFieldToFilter('attribute_code', $attributeCode);

$attribute = $productCollection->getFirstItem()->setEntity($product->getResource());
print_r($attribute->getData()); // print out the available attributes

$options = $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(false);
print_r($options); // print out attribute options