Get the current category name in Magento

A key part of the request execution has information stored into the Mage registry and accessing this information is a simple call requesting the needed data.  Learn how to access the registry to find the current category title.

The registry object we are interested in is ‘current_category’ and we will utilise the registry call getName() to create call to retrieve the needed information thusly;

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