title: displaying categories in the left column in magento
body: <p>I have recently started working in magento, and my boss has given me the task of displaying categories in the left column. I have the static html file which I pasted inside the .phtml file and called it from the xml block and it displays just the static stuff in the left column.</p>
  
  <p>I want them to be dynamic so that the categories can be added or removed from the backend.
  The html that I have is in table format and I want to insert the php code into that same html so that the design is not disturbed and it becomes dynamic.</p>