Question

I want to conditionally load content based on category id in product page but can’t get it to work. I know I can do this by calling a custom attribute but this is not what I have in mind because the content is specifically for a particular category so I don’t want to enter it repeatedly in each product for the given category.

Basically I was looking for something like this:

<?php if ($_catid = $this->getCategoryid('3')):?>
display content for category id 3 (content is entered directly in the view.phtml file)
<?php else: ?>
content for other cateogegory
<?php endif; ?>

Your guidance is greatly appreciate!

Update for the correct code (thanks ahadley):

<?php $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory();?>
<?php if($category->getId()==3): ?>

<h3>Show content for Category ID3</h3>

<?php else: ?>

<h3>Show content for other categories</h3>
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<?php endif; ?>

Answer 1

You could use something like the following to load the category:

<?php $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory();?>

Then you could get information such as:

 <?php echo $category->getName();?>