Is the magento display mode conditional in the .xml directory?

Question

Does anyone know how to add or customize the display mode in the .xml directory in magento?

if you are editing a category in the backend, on the "Display Settings" tab there is a drop-down menu for the "display mode", where you can only select the "static block". this actually turns your category page into a regular content page, the problem is that the page still inherits everything that you set for the regular category pages in the catalog.xml file, and I want to cancel all this if the display mode is "only static block. "

the closest identifier got this conditional value in /template/catalog/category/view.phtml

if($this->isContentMode()): echo $this->getCmsBlockHtml() 

and some conditional conditions of the product in the .xml directory

 <!-- Additional block dependant on product type --> PRODUCT_TYPE_simple PRODUCT_TYPE_configurable etc... 

Please, help!

Answer 1

You can override the Mage_Catalog_CategoryController::viewAction() method before calling

 $this->generateLayoutXml()->generateLayoutBlocks(); 

You can add different layouts depending on the category settings. From these layouts you can remove blocks or add new ones.