Magento - get current product

Question

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

Answer 1

How to get current product id

Try below code to get currently loaded product id:

$product_id = $this->getProduct()->getId();

When you don’t have access to $this, you can use Magento registry:

$product_id = Mage::registry('current_product')->getId();