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Continuing with our tutorial on learning how to create Joomla 2.5 templates<\/a>, we will once again review the following code:<\/p>\n

\/\/ check modules
$showRightColumn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 = ($this->countModules(\u2018position-3\u2019) or $this->countModules(\u2018position-6\u2019) or $this->countModules(\u2018position-8\u2019));<\/p>\n

In our last tutorial, we focused on what was the purpose of $showRightColumn<\/a>. In this tutorial, we will again look at this section of code, but this time we will look at the countModules<\/strong> function.<\/p>\n

Based upon the name itself, countModules, we can guess that this function will return the number of active modules in the given position. It is easy to test this theory, which we will do below.<\/p>\n

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How many active modules do we have in each position?<\/h2>\n

If you look at the code above, you will see that we are testing three different positions:<\/p>\n