Fortunately there was no need to play around with the code. I was ignorant about the ability of joomla to embed media in articles. It was possible to do it just by clicking the 'embed media' button in the article editor. But thanks anyway.

There is another way to load a module inside an article.

Define a new position for the module. Select the module in the module list and type into module position drop-down. E.g. "user01" is the new position.

In the article, include the tag {loadposition user01}. Enclose the tag inside a div (in HTML view of the editor) with style set to float right OR left as necessary.

The module will load inside the article.

This works on Version 1.5. Not sure if it does on 1.0.

Steve is right, it's a simpler way of doing it. The difference is that i wanted the position to be exactly at the middle of the article, and i couldn't figure another better way than this, counting the article characters and split it at the middle.

The headings font name is "dirty headline", you can find it here

Most do not like to have the core codes of Joomla modified. Is there a joomla tutorial that shows how to do this without modifying the code? Come to think of it joomla 1.0v had a mambot that loaded modules into content mos=module or something like that.

heh this is cool i spent many time to tinking how to do this
thanks for the info

Exactly what I was looking for!

But is there a way to limit the module insertion to only the first article. Tried a bunch of things with no luck.

I'm trying to make this work but it isn't. I did replace your_module_position with the position I created.
Where do you use firstpart and where do you use second. would the whole code look like this?

<?php
$article = $this->article->text;

$countchars = strlen($article);

$divide = $countchars / 2;

$firstpart = substr($article, 0, $divide);

$secondpart = substr($article, $divide);
?>
<?php echo $firstpart; ?>

<?php echo $secondpart; ?>

Of course it's not going to show right here but you get the idea.

No it doesn't show any errors only does not show the module inside the text.
I also removed the line you suggested still nothing. Does this have to do with which template we use at all? Also I am trying this on local server wamp, I don't know if that does anything to it.

I did create the position inside my template's templatesetails.XML That's the way I'm trying it with some text it works if I insert {loadposition xyz} inside the article itself.
Anyway it seems like it's working for many people I'll try it again at a different site tonight.
Thanks

This is perfect and easy to implement. But only one thing is here that is not understood .
Why the component directory is used for creating the new position?

Thanks guy! This is really helpful post as well as comments. I got very useful and informative information. Thanks again for sharing.

Thank you very much, however there seem to be a problem sometimes it gives the first 200 characters (or first part if divided in half) and then for the secondpart it starts from the top I made a screenshot because this is not live. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5083/5209888110_0acf2923e3_b.jpg

If it helps it seems to do this mostly when there are pagebreak titles or a prev-next button at the end of the article.

Hi. How can I put the module position at the and of article and before plugin position? Thank you for answer!!!

i dont want to split the artilce content, I just want the position before or after the article
so i did it like this

<?php if (isset ($this->article->toc)) :
echo $this->article->toc; ?>

<?php endif; ?>
<?php echo $this->article->text; ?>

<?php
$myblurb_modules = &JModuleHelper::getModules( 'userarea' );
foreach ($myblurb_modules as $myblurb) {
$_options = array( 'style' => 'xhtml' );
echo JModuleHelper::renderModule( $myblurb, $_options );
}
?>

But its is not displaying modules... :(

incredable ! i do it ! thansk !