Get Images of a Disabled Product By SKU

Question

I have been working on our site to download the images for specific SKUs. I am fetching the images like following

require('../app/Mage.php');
Mage::init();
$sku = $_REQUEST['sku'];
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku', $sku);
$_images = $product->getMediaGalleryImages();
$url = array();
if(empty($_images))
    die();
foreach ($_images as $image) {
   $url[] =  str_replace('https:' , 'http:',$image->getUrl());
} 
echo implode("|||" , $url);

It works well for the enabled products, but images for disabled products can't be fetched using this snippet. Can anybody help me out to load disabled product images by SKU?

I will refine my answer once back at a computer. But when loading a collection with flat tables "on" it will not return disabled products unless you load it in the context of the admin store. I'd start there. I'll post more once I'm on. — Rob, May 14 '15 at 12:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 15 '18 at 11:08

As per as magento system loadByAttribute() get item from Collection and magento does not provide all data of product from product Collection... See at Class Mage_Catalog_Model_Abstract

 public function loadByAttribute($attribute, $value, $additionalAttributes = '*')
    {
        $collection = $this->getResourceCollection()
            ->addAttributeToSelect($additionalAttributes)
            ->addAttributeToFilter($attribute, $value)
            ->setPage(1,1);

        foreach ($collection as $object) {
            return $object;
        }
        return false;
    }

If magento collect product collection at frontend then magento remove all Disable product Collection.

So that you need use load function.

Or use Current store as admin by Changing

Mage::init();

to

Mage::app('admin');

Also,check the link for getting media image faster ways.See the link

Faster way to load media images in a product collection

Changing Mage::init(); to Mage::app('admin'); does the trick thanks! — Gogol, May 14 '15 at 13:01

Get Images of a Disabled Product By SKU

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