Joomla - how to style the latest news?

Question

Joomla

Joomla 2.5
It is planned to display 5 latest news in the sidebar. I did the following: I created a category for materials, then added 5 news to this category, went to the module manager and added a module of the type Materials - News (displays a given number of news from the selected category) in the template I registered the output of the module through for the STYLE
tag created a new style under called NEWS Also in the style folder I created the html folder and in it I already created the modules.php file

<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
function modChrome_news($module, $params, $attribs){
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($module);
    echo "</pre>";exit;
    if (!empty ($module->content)) : ?>
        <div>
            <?php echo $module->content; ?>
        </div>
    <?php endif;
}
?>

But when I make a $module output, then firstly all the news they go together in one variable, as it were, I need to be able to process each news separately, let's say, take each news in a div with the news class, then add styles for this class, I also need that for each news I can separately receive data on the time of its publication, the author, the first picture, so that in general I can completely control the arrangement of elements in the template, how can I do what I described above, tell me, knowledgeable people?
Here is an example of what the $module variable outputs (2 materials go together, I can't process each material separately).

stdClass Object
(
    [id] => 100
    [title] => Новости
    [module] => mod_articles_news
    [position] => potolki-sidebar-news
    [content] => 

Описание новой новости Описание новой новости Описание новой новости <b>(1 материал)</b>

Описание новой новости Описание новой новости Описание новой новости <b>( 2 материал)</b>


    [showtitle] => 1
    [params] => {"catid":["78"],"image":"0","item_title":"0","link_titles":"","item_heading":"h4","showLastSeparator":"1","readmore":"0","count":"5","ordering":"a.publish_up","layout":"_:default","moduleclass_sfx":"","cache":"1","cache_time":"900","cachemode":"itemid"}
    [menuid] => 0
    [user] => 0
    [name] => articles_news
    [style] => news
)

Answer 1

modules\mod_articles_news\tmpl
if your module is "mod_articles_news", then there will be php files of the module template. in the same place, in my opinion, you can create your own templates ... I'm not sure exactly