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[joomla] Re: modules in mulitple positions

Graham Spice graham at nuthinwerked.com
Sun Oct 7 20:38:45 EDT 2007


Making a duplicate module is the easiest solution here.

You can also create different templates for different sections of the 
site and use the template manager to assign them to different menu links.

Best-
Graham


joomla-request at lists.nyphp.org wrote:
> That's totally what I needed. Thanks!
>
> ~Rolan
>
> bz-gmort at beezifies.com wrote:
>   
>> Rolan Yang wrote:
>>     
>>> Rolan Yang wrote:
>>>       
>>>> bz-gmort at beezifies.com wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Rolan Yang wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I want to place the search module in one position (top) for the 
>>>>>> front page, but place it at the "right" position for other pages. 
>>>>>> Is there an easy way to do this? I'm thinking I could create a 
>>>>>> copy of the search module configure the second one for "right"  or 
>>>>>> create a copy of the template and and apply it to the front page 
>>>>>> (swapping out positions for "top" and "right") but I'm wondering 
>>>>>> if there is an easier way...??
>>>>>>             
>>> What I ended up doing was duplicating the module like so:
>>>
>>> went into the /modules directory
>>> cp mod_search.php mod_search2.php
>>> cp mod_search.xml mod_search2.xml
>>>       
>> Why not just go to Site Modules in the Admin, click the checkbox next 
>> to the modules, and then click "copy".
>>
>> Than you will have 2 modules you can position and configure 
>> independently of each other that use the same code.  You can even 
>> configure them seperately(for example, a module that displays the 
>> latest articles can be configured in one instance to show 3 articles 
>> and another to show 10)
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