This is a Great way to achieve this but i was wondering if there is a way to reference the Node by its Path aka URL instead of the node ID # ?

where is this snippet suppose to go?

hello everybody first im sorry for my english because im from Morocco any way first i search for how to add a node in a block
and i found these topic i didin't understande these code in the first time because hes cible for the develloper objectif so here is a general code you must just to add these code in the block and dont forget to chose the php filter of course , i really wait for any reply if you find these code util a will post more simple code and astuce for defferent topics let go to work!!

$xNode = ID; /* the node id for example 3 */

$node = node_load($xNode);
if (user_access('administer nodes'))
{
$nodeurl = url('node/'. $node->nid);
print('<a href="'.$nodeurl.'">[edit]</a>');
}
$nodeout = node_view($node);
print $nodeout;

and that's all

salamo 3alaykom

This works great for nodes, thank you.

I am not getting to work with views, I modified it slightly to work with flash nodes, I have a view with the path /news when I use case"news"; I does not load?

I am using this with Drupal 6.

thank you,

I assume it is possible to achieve the same with panels. I have to figure out how; Which option would be the better one for n00b administrators?

I could not get this working under Drupal 6.x but I came up with some new code that did the trick.

You can also remove the node title without modifying your node.tpl.php by uncommenting $node -> title = NULL;

<?php
/**
  * This code snippet is used to show selected node content
  * in the block based on the current node id.  The idea is
  * to show relevant sidebar content that matches up with the
  * main content.  One block instead of several.
  *
  * If logged in user has admin nodes then show an Edit link.
  */
  
  // Get current page url
  $current_url = $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ];
  
  //Choose which node to put into the block
  switch( $current_url ) {
    case '/'://home page
      $x_node = 181;//nid of content to load
      break;
    case '/about'://url of about page
      $x_node = 185;
      break;
    case '/another-page':
      $x_node = 184;
      break;
    default: 
      return FALSE;
  }
  
  $node = node_load( $x_node );
  
  // Uncomment to remove node title
  // $node -> title = NULL;
  
  //Add an edit link for admins
  if( user_access( 'administer nodes' ) ){
    $nodeurl = url( 'node/' . $node -> nid );
    print( '<a href = "'. $nodeurl .'">[ 'edit' ]</a>' );
  }
  
  $nodeout = node_view( $node );
  print $nodeout;
  
  // Helpful debugging info.
  // print $current_url ;
?>

In case the url to a node contains more characters after the number, you may want to use regular expressions.

 // Get current page url
  $current_url = $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ];
 
//Find 'node/NR' in e.g. drupalsandbox/?q=node/2#someanchor
//the regular expression can be used with or without clean urls activated
  preg_match( '/\/{1}\?q=?(node\/[0-9]+)/', $current_url, $matches);
  $current_node = $matches[1];

  //Choose which node to put into the block
  //With all other URLs (Nodes)
 switch( $current_node ) {
    case ('node/2'):
      $x_node = 41;
      break;
    case ('node/3'):
      $x_node = 42;
      break;
    default:
      return FALSE;
  }