Load Module in Featured Article

Question

What I use:
- Version 2.5
- gantry framework

Need:
I must place in my homepage a slideshow module inside the mainbody as a featured article.

What I did:
Installed a slideshow module and placed temporary inside gantry's maintop-a position to see if it worked (it did), then moved in a non-previously-exsisting 'slideshow' position.

Created a new article, with this content: {loadposition slideshow} and set it to featured state.

Result:
the article was published correctly but the introtext char limit trimmed the actual module code to 100 chars making it useless.

What I already tried to fix the issue:

• Modified my slideshow article from database adding the loadmodule code in the fulltext field (which was originally empty),
  then modified components/com_content/view/featured/tmpl/default_item.php replacing echo $this->item->introtext; with an if to identify my slideshow article id then query the database to find the fulltext field and echo it. this thingy works but the loadmodule function isn't, so it's displayed as simple HTML. I deduce that introtext is treated differently than fulltext since what's inside the brackets is interpreted as code only when echoed as introtext, and I miss that layer.

• Modified modules/mod_articles_category/helper.php to break the 100 introtext_limit, sadly finding that's not called for my featured articles (added dump($item, 'some name') which returns only the articles that are inside my news sidebar, even if all my featured articles including slideshow are categorized)

• tried a million different combinations of the above (i.e.:{loadmodule slideshow}
{module [myslideshow_article_id]} <- a module loader plugin i tried, ...) which are too long to put here.

• Searched the whole project folder for files containing 'introtext' inside their code, finding alot, but nothing that actually trims it (except helper.php of course)

• Searched the Joomla API

• Googled for everything that came into my mind finding no working solutions.

• Came Here :)

Thanks

Answer 1

Your requirement is not clear. If you wish to add a slideshow in a module in a featured article, look into Modules Anywhere by the fellow at NoNumber. In this case, you would include your module inside a featured article to show the slides.

Answer 2

Your main article might contain a readmore tag before the loadposition code you're adding. Check the source code of your article (press the < > button if you're using TinyMCE) and look for the following code in your article:

<hr id="system-readmore" />

This is where Joomla should end the intro text. Make sure the {loadposition slideshow} code is found before the readmore tag. Try placing it before any text in your article, to see if it shows up.

Where does the 100 characters intro text limit come from? Are you using K2 or another CCK, or is it plain Joomla? Joomla itself should not crop your intro text, neither by character nor word count, unless your template has some kind of override for this.

Update: I see no reason why what you're trying to do shouldn't work, Joomla has no character limit for the intro text by default, it can be as long as you want.

Unless it has to be a featured article, and you're displaying other articles on the same page, try displaying the article using a "Single Article" menu item, or maybe "Category blog".

You say the module works fine when published to a regular module position, so I assume the module itself is working. Have you checked if your article contains any Have you checked if your article contains open HTML tags? (e.g. a <div> without a closing </div>)?

Another test is to create a new article, add {loadposition slideshow} (and nothing else) in the text, and set it as featured.