Add manufacturers name to a category listing

I want to add the manufacturers name to a category listing. Found this thread, http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1610/P15/#t42109 but I can´t get it to work.

In the catalog.xml I have added

<action method="addAttribute"><attribute>manufacturer</attribute></action>

after

<block type="catalog/product_list" name="product_list" template="catalog/product/list.phtml">

in both section

<catalog_category_default translate="label">

and

<catalog_category_layered translate="label">

In 开发者_JS百科my list.phtml I have tried

echo $_product->getAttributeText('manufacturer');

which gave an empty result and

echo $_product->getResource()->getAttribute('manufacturer')->getFrontend()->getValue($_product);

which gave the result "No"

I´m running version 1.5.1.0

1) Simply put the required to "YES" via the magento backoffice

2) Reindex

3) It will work (either $_product->getManufacturer(), $_product->getdata("manufacturer") or echo $_product->getAttributeText('manufacturer'))

Regards, Kenny

You need to set Used in Product Listing to Yes for the 'manufacturer' attribute and the code will work just fine.