Magento - Get the Current Category

Submitted by rcastera on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 12:07

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');
?>

12 comments for Magento - Get the Current Category

i love your little magento...

Posted by Daniel Z on 08/14/2009.

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

Daniel, Thanks!...

Posted by Richard on 08/14/2009.

Daniel, Thanks!

Thanks, God I hate static and...

Posted by Josh Ribakoff on 09/10/2009.

Thanks,

God I hate static and implicit interfaces.

These snippets are great......

Posted by Acrobatic on 09/25/2009.

These snippets are great... they've helped me multiple times -- thanks!

Acrobatic, Thanks!...

Posted by Richard on 09/26/2009.

Acrobatic, Thanks!

Dumb question sorry but, how...

Posted by Enes on 05/17/2010.

Dumb question sorry but, how do I show this now on the product page? echo doesn't work

Enes, if you still need to...

Posted by Phil on 06/16/2010.

Enes, if you still need to know:

Mage::registry('current_category')->getName()

will get you the name.

There's an error on product...

Posted by Christian on 08/03/2010.

There's an error on product page when you search a product. How to fix that bug?

Thanks for the snippet, I'm...

Posted by Patrick on 08/14/2010.

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

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

but this doesn't work

Thanks.I was doing using loop...

Posted by Rahul on 10/29/2011.

Thanks.I was doing using loop but your solution is perfect.

Really very useful blog. It...

Posted by Jonewatson on 01/21/2012.

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

Works perfect Many thanks...

Posted by Andrei on 02/29/2012.

Works perfect Many thanks

Richard Castera