Technologies Solutions: How do you add a new module position in joomla 1.6

Create a module position in joomla 1.6

Inserting the code

Open the index.php file of the Template you wish to edit
Locate the place in the Template where you wish to put the new position.
Insert

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="newposition"   />

The variable can be used (between existing tags) to replace an image by replacing the <img src="xxx" border="0" alt="">. Or By creating a new tag with its own class/id.
Open the Template's TemplateDetails.xml file and locate the

<positions></positions> Start and end tags

Then add

<position>newposition</position>

Example

<positions>
  <position>debug</position>
  <position>position-0</position>
  <position>position-1</position>
  <position>position-2</position>
  <position>position-3</position>
  <position>position-4</position>
  <position>position-5</position>
  <position>position-6</position>
  <position>position-7</position>
  <position>position-8</position>
  <position>position-9</position>
  <position>position-10</position>
  <position>position-11</position>
  <position>position-12</position>
  <position>position-13</position>
  <position>position-14</position>
  <position>position-15</position>
  <position>newposition</position>
</positions>

Viewing the changes

With Joomla 1.6 to see all of the existing template locations in your browser edit the Template manager options.

Then append "?tp=1",to the end of your normal URL (for example, "http://www.yoursite.com/?tp=1").

Joomla! 1.5

In this example, we will add a new position to the default rhuk_milkyway template. Here are the steps.

Open the file "<your Joomla! home>/templates/rhuk_milkyway/index.php" for editing and determine where your new position will be on the page. Note that you can see all of the existing template locations in your browser by adding "?tp=1" to the end of your normal URL (for example, "http://www.yoursite.com/?tp=1").
In our example, we will add a new location after the "breadcrumb" position called "mynewposition". To do this, find the line in the file <div id="whitebox"> and insert a new line <jdoc:include type="modules" name="mynewposition" /> as shown below:

<div id="pathway">
   <jdoc:include type="modules" name="breadcrumb" />
</div>
   <div class="clr"></div>
   <div id="whitebox">
      <jdoc:include type="modules" name="mynewposition" />
   <div id="whitebox_t">

Open the file "<your Joomla! home>/templates/rhuk_milkyway/templateDetails.xml" for editing and find the "<positions>" section of the file. Add the new entry for "mynewposition" as shown below:

<positions>
   <position>breadcrumb</position>
   <position>left</position>
   <position>right</position>
   <position>top</position>
   <position>user1</position>
   <position>user2</position>
   <position>user3</position>
   <position>user4</position>
   <position>footer</position>
   <position>debug</position>
   <position>syndicate</position>
   <position>mynewposition</position>
</positions>