Magento-1.9 Layout Blocks Product View – Remove Product Information, Reviews, Tags Block from Product Page

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I am trying to remove a certain block from my product page in Magento, but can't seem to find where I should delete it. I think it's somewhere in the XML files, but since I'm not that good of a web-developer, I figured it's stupid to just try to delete some files.

In the Magento admin I already disabled the 'tags' function (admin -> system -> configuration -> advanced -> disable Mage_Tag), but I can't find where to delete the entire block.

The block circled in red in the picture is the block I'm trying to delete. So also 'productomschrijving' and 'extra informatie'.

The block I'm trying to delete

Best Answer

You should have to create local.xml file inside your frontend theme folder app/design/frontend/[your_package]/[your_theme] (if you haven't already)

And insert the following lines there

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<layout version="0.1.0">

<catalog_product_view>
    <reference name="product.info.tabs">
        <action method="unsetChild">
            <child>description</child>
        </action>
        <action method="unsetChild">
            <child>additional</child>
        </action>
    </reference>
</catalog_product_view>

</layout>

you can change your tag name to your product description and extra information tag given in theme.

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I couldn't find a way to do this with layout either but here is an example of a way you can do it with observers (providing they extend the Template block)...

Create your events.xml in etc/events.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd">
    <event name="view_block_abstract_to_html_before">
        <observer name="remove_block" instance="[Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Model\Observer\RemoveBlock" />
    </event>
</config>

Create the observer

<?php

namespace [Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Model\Observer;

use Magento\Framework\Event\Observer;
use Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface;

class RemoveBlock implements ObserverInterface
{
    protected $_scopeConfig;

    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Framework\App\Config\ScopeConfigInterface $scopeConfig
    ) {
        $this->_scopeConfig = $scopeConfig;
    }

    public function execute(Observer $observer)
    {
        /** @var \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template $block */
        $block = $observer->getBlock();
        if ($block->getType() == 'Magento\Backend\Block\Dashboard') {
            $remove = $this->_scopeConfig->getValue(
                'dashboard/settings/remove',
                \Magento\Store\Model\ScopeInterface::SCOPE_STORE
            );

            if ($remove) {
                $block->setTemplate(false);
            }
        }
    }
}

Basically the _toHtml checks to see if there is a template. If there isn't it returns ''.

EDIT

After some more digging i have found a way to do this further up the chain.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd">
    <event name="layout_generate_blocks_after">
        <observer name="remove_block" instance="[Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Model\Observer\RemoveBlock" />
    </event>
</config>

And the observer...

<?php

namespace [Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Model\Observer;

use Magento\Framework\Event\Observer;
use Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface;

class RemoveBlock implements ObserverInterface
{
    protected $_scopeConfig;

    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Framework\App\Config\ScopeConfigInterface $scopeConfig
    ) {
        $this->_scopeConfig = $scopeConfig;
    }

    public function execute(Observer $observer)
    {
        /** @var \Magento\Framework\View\Layout $layout */
        $layout = $observer->getLayout();
        $block = $layout->getBlock('dashboard');
        if ($block) {
            $remove = $this->_scopeConfig->getValue(
                'dashboard/settings/remove',
                \Magento\Store\Model\ScopeInterface::SCOPE_STORE
            );

            if ($remove) {
                $layout->unsetElement('dashboard');
            }
        }
    }
}

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