Question

If I load a customer in the following way:

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

Whats the difference between:

$customer -> getDefaultShippingAddress();

and

$customer -> getPrimaryShippingAddress();

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

They return the same result

See /app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model/Customer.php

 /*
 * @return Mage_Customer_Model_Address
 */
public function getPrimaryBillingAddress()
{
    return $this->getPrimaryAddress('default_billing');
}

/**
 * Get customer default billing address
 *
 * @return Mage_Customer_Model_Address
 */
public function getDefaultBillingAddress()
{
    return $this->getPrimaryBillingAddress();
}