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copied!<p>If you want to do it by yourself, you can implement an observer, check which filters are applied in the layered navigation and add your block to the <code>content</code> block.</p> <p>Your block then implements whatever logic you want to show the different informations for the manufacturer.</p> <p>I would try <code>controller_action_layout_generate_blocks_after</code>, <code>controller_action_layout_render_before</code> or <code>controller_action_layout_render_before_'.$this->getFullActionName()</code> whatever the FullActionName for the layered category is :-)</p> <p>About Observers you can find things at inchoos: <a href="http://inchoo.net/category/ecommerce/magento/events-observers/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://inchoo.net/category/ecommerce/magento/events-observers/</a></p> <p>To get the information wether a manufactuerer is choosen, I think there are two ways:</p> <ol> <li>get the information from the get <code>Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam()</code> should work</li> <li>get the layout, then <code>$layout->getBlock('catalog.leftnav')</code> and pull the information somehow out of the block</li> </ol> <p>afterwards you can add your block.</p> <p>After reading this: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11577155/magento-add-content-block-at-the-end-of-the-structual-block-content">Magento: Add content block at the end of the structual block "content"</a></p> <p>I would suggest to introduce your own update handle (because I don't know, how to prepend blocks to the beginning of <code>content</code>). with your own handle, you can use <code>before="-"</code> </p> <p>And as described here: <a href="http://www.classyllama.com/magento/add-custom-layout-handles-e-g-parent-categories" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.classyllama.com/magento/add-custom-layout-handles-e-g-parent-categories</a></p> <p>you can add your handle via <code>$layout->getUpdate()->addHandle('manufacturer_informations');</code></p> <p>I would try something like this in the observer:</p> <pre><code>if($category = Mage::registry('current_category')) { if($category->getName() == 'MyBrand') { // ot maybe $category->getId() == ... //instantiate some $block } $layout->getBlock('content')->insert($block, 'brand-information'); } </code></pre>

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