Display Blocks on certain pages

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Posted by cithukyaw on February 21, 2011 at 3:33am

Hi Drupalers,

I have two blocks - "Recent Blog Posts" and "Popular Blog Posts".
I would like to hide these blocks in all pages except blog related pages.
How can I do that ?

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Context or pathauto

Posted by misc on February 21, 2011 at 9:14am
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Before I used pathauto to do this, I created paths to blogpost that contained the path 'blog/', and in the path settings for the visibility I used /blog/*. Now I usually use the module context instead in different ways to accomplish this.

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Context Module

Posted by davidwheelerphd on February 22, 2011 at 2:14am
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I recommend Context Module, also.

Thanks for your advices. I

Posted by cithukyaw on February 23, 2011 at 3:53am
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Thanks for your advices.

I created a function "mymodule_block_visibility" in my custom module.

<?php
function mymodule_block_visibility($type, $visibility = FALSE){
$match = $visibility;
  $url = request_uri();
  $types = array('og' => 1, 'blog' => 1);

if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
        $nid = arg(1);
     $node = node_load(array('nid' => $nid));
      $type = $node->type;
        # check node type
     if (isset($types[$type]) && $type == $module) {
           $match |= TRUE;
        }
  }
 
   if( $module == 'blog'){
      # check url
        $match |= strpos($url, '=blog') | strpos($url, '/blog');
  }
 
   if($module == 'og'){ 
       # Check og node id
     $group_node = og_set_group_context();
      $match |= $group_node->nid;
     # check url
        $match |= strpos($url, '=group') | strpos($url, '/group');
        $match |= strpos($url, '=og') | strpos($url, '/og');
  }

return $match;
}
?>

And call it in "Page specific visibility settings" of block configuration by checking "Show if the following PHP code returns TRUE".

<?php
return module_exists('mymodule') ? mymodule_block_visibility('blog') : TRUE;
?>

I think it is similar to the block_node_visibility module, but that module didn't work for me.
I prefer coding !

With Regards,
Sithu