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Magento – Get the Current Category

August 3, 2009 by rcastera 16 Comments

Need to get the current category loaded? No problem! Just use this useful little snippet below. It will return an object of the current category.

<?php $currentCategory = Mage::registry('current_category'); ?>

1	<?php $currentCategory = Mage::registry('current_category'); ?>

Magento PHP

16 Comments

Patrick November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Thanks for the snippet,

I’m searching for a way to give the main div an id what’s chances whit the category

can i also get the title ore description this way

i tried

PHP

Mage::registry('current_category')->getTitle();

1

Mage::registry('current_category')->getTitle();

but this doesn’t work

Praful November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Magento 1.7.0.2

$_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');

$_category_detail=Mage::registry('current_category');

$products = $_category_detail->getProductCollection()->joinField('inventory_in_stock', 'cataloginventory_stock_item', 'is_in_stock', 'product_id=entity_id','is_in_stock > 0', 'left')->setOrder('inventory_in_stock','asc')->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4);

$products->getSelect()->order(new Zend_Db_Expr('RAND()'))->limit(4 );

$_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');

$_category_detail=Mage::registry('current_category');

$products = $_category_detail->getProductCollection()->joinField('inventory_in_stock', 'cataloginventory_stock_item', 'is_in_stock', 'product_id=entity_id','is_in_stock > 0', 'left')->setOrder('inventory_in_stock','asc')->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4);

$products->getSelect()->order(new Zend_Db_Expr('RAND()'))->limit(4 );

its working fine on localhost but showing error on live site.

error: call to function getProductCollection() on a non-object.

so what will the problem??

if i used

$_category_detail =	Mage::getModel('catalog/category');

1	$_category_detail = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');

instead of

$_category_detail=Mage::registry('current_category');

1	$_category_detail=Mage::registry('current_category');

then its working fine but my output going to wrong ….

$_category_detail =	Mage::getModel('catalog/category');

1	$_category_detail = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');

have any parameter where i can load current category of product on product page or(realated page)

Daniel Z November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

i love your little magento zend php posts. they are very informative. please dont stop! i have very little zend experience and these are very helpful for my magento projects
Josh Ribakoff November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Thanks,

God I hate static and implicit interfaces.
Acrobatic November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

These snippets are great… they’ve helped me multiple times — thanks!
Enes November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Dumb question sorry but, how do I show this now on the product page? echo doesn’t work
Christian November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

There’s an error on product page when you search a product. How to fix that bug?
Rahul November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Thanks.I was doing using loop but your solution is perfect.
Jonewatson November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Really very useful blog. It save my lots of time.

Thanks
Andrei November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Works perfect Many thanks
Willian November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Thanks
Gerard Nijboer November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Excellent, thanks!
Anonymous November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am Reply

Hello,

is there an alternative way to get the current category? In my case the result of Mage::registry(‘current_category’) is empty!