Magento 1.6.1.0, how to access a products thumbnail or base images instead of the small_image

Question

I have two images per product, one is a simple image, and one is a collage type image. The simple image is the small_image, the collage image is in base and thumbnail.

This is what I use to grab the small_image: helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image'); ?>" width="250" />

How would I grab the base_image instead?

thanks

Answer 1

The second argument to that helper method is the attribute name, the attribute name of the base image is simply 'image'. So it should be...

helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image');