How to display category custom design layout in product view page?

Question

Let\'s say I have two categegories, A and B.

I set A to use \'layout_a\' on Catalog -> Catalog Categories -> Click a category -> click custom design tab

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Answer 1

Create an attribute with dropdown type and name attribute code 'which_category'. On the options tab fill in 'category_a' and 'category_b'

Create two files in /app/design/frontend/default/YOURTEMP/template/catalog/product/

lets say: view_cat_a.phtml and view_cat_b.phtml

You can design your specific category product view page based on view.phtml.

Change view.phtml to:

helper('catalog/output'); 
$_product = $this->getProduct();
    if ( $_product->getAttributeText('which_category') == category_a) {
        include('view_cat_a.phtml');
    } else {
        include('view_cat_b.phtml');
    }

When you create a product you can choose the category on the attribute (define them in attribute_set)