Fatal error - Call to a member function count

Question

I wish to copy this content :

app\design\frontend\base\default\template\catalog\navigation\left.phtl

<?php if (!Mage::registry('current_category')) return ?>
<?php $_categories = $this->getCurrentChildCategories() ?>
<?php $_count = is_array($_categories)?count($_categories):$_categories->count(); ?>
<?php if($_count): ?>
<div class="block block-layered-nav">
    <div class="block-title">
        <strong><span><?php echo $this->__('Browse By') ?></span></strong>
    </div>
    <div class="block-content">
        <dl id="narrow-by-list2">
            <dt><?php echo $this->__('Category') ?></dt>
            <dd>
                <ol>
                <?php foreach ($_categories as $_category): ?>
                    <?php if($_category->getIsActive()): ?>
                    <li>
                        <a href="<?php echo $this->getCategoryUrl($_category) ?>"<?php if ($this->isCategoryActive($_category)): ?> class="current"<?php endif; ?>><?php echo $this->escapeHtml($_category->getName()) ?></a> (<?php echo $_category->getProductCount() ?>)
                    </li>
                    <?php endif; ?>
                <?php endforeach ?>
                </ol>
            </dd>
        </dl>
        <script type="text/javascript">decorateDataList('narrow-by-list2')</script>
    </div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

In my custom toolbar :

app\design\frontend\mytheme\default\template\catalog\product\list\toolbar.phtml

But I getting fatal error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function count() on a non-object in app\design\frontend\mytheme\default\template\catalog\product\list\toolbar.phtml

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

To get all content of template file
app\design\frontend\base\default\template\catalog\navigation\left.phtml
inside
app\design\frontend\mytheme\default\template\catalog\product\list\toolbar.phtml
in your template use
echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('catalog/navigation')->setTemplate('catalog/navigation/left.phtml')->toHtml();