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RBenke
PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:55 am 
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OK, the title may be misleading. Let me say what I'm trying to accomplish, because I may be going about it entirely the wrong way.

Here's what I want:

I have a link on my front page. When a user clicks that link, I want them to go to a new page. That page needs to have a module in it, not on the left, not on the right, but right smack dap in the middle of the page.

Here's how I'm approaching it (which is probably wrong)...

I created an article. The menu item on the front page links to that article. I'm trying to put a module in the article.

Should I be going about this differently?

Here's an example: This person put a "Poll" in an article. How? http://demotemplates.joomlashack.com/wo ... iew/14/30/

Thanks.


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sorry to say but thats not a poll, thats a basic feature in joomla that lets users review articles. i remember seeing an extension  here at joomla that lets you publish a module into an article , i cant remember what the name was but ill keep an eye out for it

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RBenke
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Thanks for the reply.  :)

But I don't think I need an extension to do what I want to do.

Jooma 1.5 includes a module called "defaultwrapper". Surely the use of that module isn't limited to the confined space of the left or right positions. It needs to have lots of room so the page that it's displaying can be displayed in full. That means the center. But in my case, not the center of the FRONT page, but the center of some other page that's linked to from the front page.

How do I create this "other" page except as an article? And how do I place the defaultwapper module into the middle of it?

I'm confident this can be done, I'm just not figuring it out.


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sorry only after i posted i realised yo uwhere in 1.5 not to sure about it havent starting to install any site using 1.5. but i still know that the WOW site is not using a module but a component

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Hi! been looking for a similar solution. Relatively new to Joomla..so may not be best method but found this article!.
Haven't tried it yet, but might fit the bill!

http://www.joomlawebsites.com/joomla-tutorials/admin/insert-a-module-into-a-content-item.html

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I read the tutorial linked above. I think it presumes more knowledge than I have. It says to insert that code into your new page. What page? An article isn't a page, it's an entry in a database.

There isn't a way (that I've found) to create a new page on a Joomla site, at least not by using the Joomla control panel. Creating a new page looks like something that would have to be done manually, by someone who is very schooled in the use of PHP and could write a page from scratch.

So I'm going to put a new post in the forum that asks about creating a new page.


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you underestimate the power of joomla.
i recommend you read up on the manuall for starters to joomla.

once you creat an article in statci or regular content with section and category, you can then go into the menu section from the top and choose main menu. then simply click on new, it will give you options to creat any type of page, we want for exampl blog of  a specific category then yo uselect a name and a category to display and click save.

i recommend you go read up on the howto's

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:53 pm 
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RBenke:

It's actually really easy to do. In your template, find where it says
Code:
<jdoc:include type="component">


after it put :

Code:
<?php if($this->countModules('content')) { ?>
                  
   <jdoc:include type="modules" name="content" style="box" />

<?php } ?>


You'll then assign the module that you want displayed there to that position ("content") and make sure you pick which menu items you want it to display for...

Hope that helps...

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RBenke wrote:
I created an article. The menu item on the front page links to that article. I'm trying to put a module in the article.


If I understand you, its pretty easy, just use the mosloadposition syntax right into the article, for example:

{mosloadposition user1}

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Forgot to add, then of course you need to publish a module to that position (user1)

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compass wrote:
RBenke wrote:
I created an article. The menu item on the front page links to that article. I'm trying to put a module in the article.


If I understand you, its pretty easy, just use the mosloadposition syntax right into the article, for example:

{mosloadposition user1}


If we're talking J1.5, you'd use the JDoc:Include syntax. mosloadposition is for J1.0.x.

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For 1.5 theres a slight change in the term used to show a position with the use of the plugin that is named 'Content - Load Module'.
1.0.x = mosloadposition
1.5.x = loadposition

So you can include the module(s) from a module position in an article in 1.5 by writing {loadposition user1}

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Hello

I have put the loginmodule in an article, but it also shows in the normal user1 postition - so it displays twice - what to do ?

I am a newbe

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njuelbli wrote:
Hello

I have put the loginmodule in an article, but it also shows in the normal user1 postition - so it displays twice - what to do ?

I am a newbe

Nils


Create new module position, like user8 and place the module there

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Thank you for your help
I got it !!!!

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