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

You can get the current product ID and product details from the below code.

$_proId  = $this->getProduct()->getId();
$_product= Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_proId);