Magento: how to get the price of a product with catalog rules applied

Question

I\'m developing a script (external to Magento, not a module) which aims to output a text list of all available products, their prices and some other attributes. However, cat

Answer 1

I discovered the problem. The discounted prices display Ok in the store frontend. The problem was that I was developing a script "external" to Magento (thus not a Magento module), something like:

getStore();
...

For everything to work properly it seems that one must follow the proper Magento bootstrap, and develop everything as a module. My script was so simple that I thought it wouldn't be necessary to code a complete module. In other words, everything in Magento should really be a module.

Concluding, using the module approach, all the methods work as expected:

$_product->getPrice()
$_product->getFinalPrice()
$_product->getSpecialPrice()

Thank you all for your input.