I have a sidebar block in my layout that is being displayed on different pages.
In this block I have a list of products, and I want to select the current product when I'm on a product page.
I'm using :
$current_product = Mage::registry('current_product');
to get the current product, but this works only for the first time I'm loading the product page. When I select a different product the code above returns the same value (the first product).
I'm assuming this happens because I'm using Magento cache. What can I do to get the right value?
The same thing happens when I use:
$currentCategory = Mage::registry('current_category');
The sidebar block is a navigation template I've added here: ..\app\design\frontend\default\mytheme\template\catalog\navigation\page_left.phtml.
I'm adding it to the layout with this XML :
<block type="catalog/navigation" name="left.navigation.block" as="left.navigation.block" template="catalog/navigation/page_left.phtml"/>