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I have a block that I need displayed only on the main page of a node.

I can get it to display on node/1/view by putting node/*/view in the conditions, but that only works if view is in the URL. I want it to show whether I go to node/1/view or node/1, but NOTHING else. If I try node/* it shows it for every node page, not just node/1. I also tried node/*/ but that didn't work at all as it appears the ending slash is being removed.

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In the visibility textarea of your block, select PHP code and put the following:

<?php
if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && (arg(2) == '' || arg(2) == 'view')) {
  return TRUE;
} else {
  return FALSE;
}
?>
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Exactly what I was looking for, this even works with taxonomy! Perfect! Thanks so much. – Piontek Media Dec 20 '11 at 18:48
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If you really want you can simply add node/1 and node/1/view to the visibility list. However this is not the Drupal way imho - Drupal expects that default local tasks aren't explicitly specified in the URL (and this is why for example it outputs node URLs as node/1 and not node/1/view in the first place). Path based rules like this can make a system more brittle - and doing it in a way that doesn't fit in with existing Drupal behaviour is asking for trouble imho. What is it you're trying to do?

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I need it to be automatic as users will be signing up and getting a node page to customize. There will be thousands of them, and more added every day. Each node will act as a users own personal page and needs to have a block shown only on the main page of it (both node/1/view and node/1, but there will be thousands of nodes with this same setup). Hope that clears it up. – Piontek Media Dec 20 '11 at 15:25
@Piontek Media So the problem is how to have the block display on some nodes and not others? – Andy Dec 20 '11 at 16:15
Not quite, the problem is how to have the block display on all nodes front page, and only the front page. – Piontek Media Dec 20 '11 at 16:32

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