Can a Joomla module “know” what position it's in?

Question

I\'m fairly new to Joomla (I\'ve been more of a Wordpress guy) and I have a question about module positions.

Can a module know what position it\'s in. For instance

Answer 1

I tried to comment under john's solution but I don't have a enough rep points-- I wanted to add it doesn't matter what you name the module position in your template case-wise the position name you get back from $module->position is always all lowercase regardless of how you named the position in the template... ie. in your template xml somewhere you might have topBar position will be named 'topbar' not 'topBar' when you try to check it with

if($module->position == 'topBar') //always false... use instead
if($module->position == 'topbar') //what you need to use