getting block to show up for specific pages and specific node type

> *Shai*
> thanks a lot for your input, it was _VERY_ helpful!  after some messing
> about with it, here’s what seems to work when I have the “PHP Mode”
> checked in “Page specific visibility settings” for configuring the block:
>
>
> <?php
>
> // makes block appear if content type = blog
>
> if ((arg(0) == 'node') && is_numeric(arg(1)) && !(arg(2))) {
>
>   $thenode = node_load(arg(1));
>
>   if ($thenode->type == 'blog') {
>
>     return TRUE;
>
>   }
>
> }
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>  
>
> //makes block appear if "blog" is in the URL
>
> $url = request_uri();
>
> if (strpos($url, "blog")) {
>
> return TRUE;
>
> }
>
> ?>
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> *From:* support-bounces@... [mailto:support-bounces@...]
> *On Behalf Of *Shai Gluskin
> *Sent:* Monday, November 09, 2009 8:53 AM
> *To:* support@...
> *Subject:* Re: [support] getting block to show up for specific pages and
> specific node type
>
>  
>
> He Brendan,
>
> You are on the right track. You just have to add some more php to do
> another test. A slight change in the structure is that you need to make
> a variable for the display status and then return it only at the end of
> the whole snippet. When there is only one test, you can just set the
> status "True" or "False" directly with a return statement that is in the
> chunk of code as the test itself (that was how your original snippet did
> it).
>
> Note that I did NOT test the code, so there definitely could be a type
> in there.
>
> I posted it to a pastebin: http://pastebin.ca/1663597
>
> Shai
>
>     *Hello, *
>
>     I found a code snippet on drupal.org <http://drupal.org> that allows
>     a block to be shown only on specific node types when 'Show if the
>     following PHP code returns TRUE' is checked on the Configure Blocks
>     page:
>
>      
>
>     -----
>
>     <?php
>     if ((arg(0) == 'node') && is_numeric(arg(1)) && !(arg(2))) {
>       $thenode = node_load(arg(1));’
>       if ($thenode->type == 'blog') {
>         return TRUE;
>       }
>     }
>     ?>
>
>     -----
>
>
>     this works great, except for that I’d like the block to show for
>     nodes of type “blog” *_AND_* also on specific pages – in my case
>     www.mysite.com/blog <http://www.mysite.com/blog> which is a view
>     showing a list of blogs.  How can I do both?
>
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