Load customer address by ID, Magento

Question

Is there a way to load a customer's address by ID?

Like the way customer loading by username does:

 $customer->loadByEmail($customerEmail);

I need it because I'm trying to know if the address already exists so I can decide to create a new one or to update the existing one

Answer 1

I use this, because they can set more than one address in Mage ...

$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')
    ->load($customer_id); // insert customer ID

foreach ($customer->getAddresses() as $address)
{
    $data = $address->toArray();
    var_dump($data);
}

Of course the var_dump will display all the array data .. it's up to you to manipulate and pull out the address you're looking for at this point.

Answer 2

Assuming that the 'ID' is referring to the address id (and not the customer id) then

$id = 5;
Mage::getModel('customer/address')->load($id);

(it always wise to do security check when loading by id)

See deleteAction() in app/code/core/Mage/Customer/controllers/AddressController.php