Here, I will be showing you how you can add attributes for your categories in Magento.
From the admin panel, you can only add attributes to product. To add attributes to category, you need to write sql query in your phpmyadmin or a better way would be creating a new custom module and adding attributes to category from the mysql setup file of the module.
By mysql setup file, I mean the file inside the directory YourNamespace/YourModule/sql/yourmodule_setup/

Suppose, you have the product data.
You can get product from either of the following way:-
$_product = $this->getProduct();
OR,

You can add attribute from Admin Panel -> Catalog -> Attributes -> Manage Attributes.
You can also add attributes from mysql setup file of your module. MySql setup file is present inside “YourModule/sql/yourmodule_setup” directory.

Here, I will show you how to get attribute name and value for any product.
Note: The attribute code in the case below is my_attribute.

/**
* get attribute collection
*/
$attribute = $_product->getResource()->getAttribute(‘my_attribute’);
/**
* get attribute type
*/
$attribute->getAttributeType();
/**
* get attribute Label
*/
$attribute->getFrontendLabel();
/**
* get attribute default value
*/
$attribute->getDefaultValue();
/**
* check if the attribute is visible
*/
$attribute->getIsVisible();
/**
* check if the attribute is required
*/
$attribute->getIsRequired();
/**
* get attribute value
*/
$attributeValue = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product’)->load($_product->getId())->getMyAttribute();

Suppose, you want to delete an attribute. But there is no delete option while you edit the attribute. This means that the attribute is system attribute. System attributes cannot be deleted. Only user defined attributes can be deleted.
To delete the attribute, you have to make it user defined.