Question

I have created my own template file for category pages (like 2columns-left.phtml for example). In that file I want to display the description of the category I am in at some other place. How can I get the current categories description? I know its included in

$this->getChildHtml('content')

But its hard to get it from there. Is there another way?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There’s always

$category = Mage::registry('current_category');
if ($category) {
    $category->getDescription();
}

Ideally this would be encapsulated in a proper PHP method rather than used directly in the template.