[1.7] Get current category object

[tumil]

Hi!

I need to assign object from the current category to a smarty variable but I can't find a proper function. Is there such a function or can I do it somehow? All I could find was getRootCategory() and getTopCategory() but that's not what I want. Can I get it somehow by id?

$category returns an array instead of an object so it's not good :/

You know:

{assign var='root_cat' value=Category::getRootCategory(Context::getContext()->language->id)}

Something like this but not the root category (the current category instead).

I would really appreciate some help