Why does my control panel not stay the same?

Question

My material panel doesn't look like this when in cycles render mode

I would like it to look like this in Cycles mode because here im in Blender render but instead it looks like this

Is there a way to do this? I am trying to make the plane a shadow catcher to it should be invisible but i can't do that in this control panel. Please tell me how i can fix this or switch control panels

Answer 1

What you need is not possible.

Some of the Panels in the Properties Editor are dependent on the render engine.

Blender Render Engine has different shading philosophy and thus the settings appear differently.

You must choose a render engine for a project and go with it.