I found that it was not quite as easy as I had expected to pull uri alias variables into a Drupal block today. What I was looking for was the $path and for that matter, the $node variable but they are not available to the block. I did some researching but was unable to find any solutions to what was required for my block logic. So, I had to create my own query in order to find out what the uri alias was for a specific page the block was displaying on.

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