Managing Magento Footer Content

Question

Hello,

I have a portion of page in footer.phtml whose content I want to change on each new page, according to different categories. How can I get this done, or can I access product attribute outside of the product page? Is this possible?

regards

Answer 1

You can do this by defining your own block, though the specifics depend on more detail about the requirement. Define a block that will output the footer content you want whenever you are on a page with the current category defined:

$category = Mage::registry("current_category");
if($category) {
    // write your output here
}

$product = Mage::registry("current_product");
if($product) {
    // write your output here
}

Note that it is generally bad practice to have your global footer change based on each page. At that point, it isn't a global footer any longer.

Thanks, Joe