Question

I’m trying to force Magento to display a certain block only when a configuration condition is met. I was trying to use an ifconfig attribute on block declaration but this does not seem to work:

<reference name="left">
<block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.navigation.left.drilldown" as="left_navigation_drilldown" before="-" template="catalog/navigation/left/drilldown.phtml" ifconfig="catalog/side_navigation/enabled" />
(...)
</reference>

Sadly block is always displayed, even if catalog/side_navigation/enabled is set to false.
I’ve seen that it was done in the same way in rss.xml for rss block. Yet it does not work for me.

I was trying method with helper presented by Alan Storm. Still no luck.

I know how to do it in way around but I would really like to use this very simple technique.

Answer 1

ifconfig will only work on an action xml element, not ony block element, here an example:

<reference name="footer_links">
   <action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalog" ifconfig="catalog/seo/site_map"><label>Site Map</label><url helper="catalog/map/getCategoryUrl" /><title>Site Map</title></action>
</reference>