Get category name from Magento - php

Question

I'm using Luxury theme in Magento. I'm trying to display current category name in the catalog/category/view.phtml file.
What I have done so far:
<div class="custom">
<?php if($crumbs && is_array($crumbs)): ?>
<div class="container">
<div class="col-md-12">
<ul>
<?php foreach($crumbs as $_crumbName=>$_crumbInfo): ?>
<li class="<?php echo $_crumbName ?>" <?php if(Mage::getStoreConfig('mgs_theme/general/snippets') == 1): ?> itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb" <?php endif ?>>
<?php if($_crumbInfo['link']): ?>
<a href="<?php echo $_crumbInfo['link'] ?>" title="<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($_crumbInfo['title']) ?>" <?php if(Mage::getStoreConfig('mgs_theme/general/snippets') == 1): ?> itemprop="url" <?php endif ?>><span <?php if(Mage::getStoreConfig('mgs_theme/general/snippets') == 1): ?> itemprop="title" <?php endif ?>><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($_crumbInfo['label']) ?></span></a>
<?php else: ?>
<strong><span <?php if(Mage::getStoreConfig('mgs_theme/general/snippets') == 1): ?> itemprop="title" <?php endif ?>><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($_crumbInfo['label']) ?></span></strong>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if(!$_crumbInfo['last']): ?>
<span>| </span>
<?php endif; ?>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<?php endif ?>
</div>
I have taken this code from page/html/breadcrumbs.phtml.
I am totally new to Magento/PHP. It doesn't show any error but it's not displaying the name of the category, while it's visible in breadcrumbs header. What I am doing wrong here?

Answer 1

If you want to show category name on category page. You can achieve this by 2 ways.
<?php echo $this->getCurrentCategory()->getName(); ?>
Or
<?php echo Mage::registry('current_category')->getName() ?>

Answer 2

On our site (magento 1.9) we wanted to show the first parent category of the current product on our product pages and provide a link to it. I achieved this as follows - you should be able to reverse engineer my code to your own ends.
At first I did it by adding the following code directly to the catalog/product/view.phtml but have since migrated it into a custom helper in my own module.
Here's the code, see if it works for you.
//get an array of the IDs of every category to which the product belongs.
$categoryIds = $_product->getCategoryIds();
//set CatID to the second element of the array since the first element
//is the base category of which all others are children.
$_catID = $categoryIds[1];
//load the correct model
$_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_catID);
//get the level of the current category
$level = $_category->getLevel();
//This if statement prevents the function from trying to run on products
//which are not assigned to any category.
if($_category->getName()){
// we want the second level category, since the first is the base category.
// ie if we call the default category 'base' and the product is in category
//base->foo->bar->baz we want to return the link to foo.
// while current category is deeper than 2 we ask it for it's parent
//category until we reach the one we want
while ($level > 2){
$parent = $_category->getParentId();
$_category =Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($parent);
$level = $_category->getLevel();
}
//Now we can build the string and echo it out to the page
$caturl = $_category->getUrl_key();
$_linkstring = 'http://www.yourwebsite.com/' . $caturl . '.html';
echo 'in category:';
echo '<a href="' . $_linkstring . '" title="'. $_category->getName() .'">';
echo ' '. $_category->getName();
echo '</a>';
}

Answer 3

Get the category name, image, description from category id in magento
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(category_id);
echo $category->getName();
echo $category->getImageUrl();
echo $category->getDescription();
Please put the category id in the load function