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Including Joomla Module Positions in Template Overrides

Originally posted by Andrew Eddie on the Joomla! Forum:

To load a module position within a Joomla 1.5 layout you can do this:

<?php
$document = &JFactory::getDocument();
$renderer = $document->loadRenderer( 'modules' );
$options = array( 'style' => 'raw' );
echo $renderer->render( 'position_name', $options, null);
?>

Change the "style" to whatever you need (most likely raw, but could be xhtml), and change the position_name to the actual module position.

September 14, 2011 Update

As Fireflight points out, the above method does not work in Joomla 1.7. Instead you can use:

<?php 
$doc      = JFactory::getDocument();
$renderer = $doc->loadRenderer( 'modules' );
$raw      = array( 'style' => 'raw' );
echo $renderer->render('header', $raw, null);
?>

You can also replace raw with any other style of module chrome, even a custom one, like:

$jexhtml = array( 'style' => 'jexhtml' );