Modify the sub-footer in PHP-Fusion

By default PHP-Fusion will let you modify the footer from the admin panel. This however displays at the very bottom of your PHP-Fusion site, and if you’d like to instead place a footer in-between your front page content and the bottom of the page, this article will explain that in detail.

Modify the sub-footer include file

Unlike the main footer that is editable from the admin panel, the sub-footer must be manually modified via a footer_includes.php file. Using the steps below I’ll walk you through this process.

1. First if you don’t already know how to, familiarize yourself with how to edit a file on my server.
2. The file you need to edit is going to be relative to your PHP-Fusion installation path, located at /includes/footer_includes.php.
   For me the full path to this file was /home/userna5/public_html/phpfusion/includes/footer_includes.php

   This is what the file should look like by default, basically a bunch of comments but no actual code:

   <?php
   /*——————————————————-+
   | PHP-Fusion Content Management System
   | Copyright (C) 2002 – 2011 Nick Jones
   | https://www.php-fusion.co.uk/
   +——————————————————–+
   | Filename: footer_includes.php
   +——————————————————–+
   | This program is released as free software under the
   | Affero GPL license. You can redistribute it and/or
   | modify it under the terms of this license which you
   | can read by viewing the included agpl.txt or online
   | at www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html. Removal of this
   | copyright header is strictly prohibited without
   | written permission from the original author(s).
   +——————————————————–*/

   //Add your custom include files for the footer here

   ?>

3. Below the line //Add your custom include files for the footer here, is where we will be inserting our own sub-footer data. So you should end up with something like this:

   //Add your custom include files for the footer here

   echo “<center>This is my sub-footer for PHP-Fusion!</center>”;

   After you save the file you should be able to refresh your PHP-Fusion website and see your new sub-footer. In the example image below, you can see that I’ve highlighted where each type of footer is getting loaded from.

   Sub-footer	/includes/footer_includes.php
   Site footer	Admin panel > Site footer
   Copyright footer	/includes/theme_functions_include.php

   

You should now understand how to modify the sub-footer of your PHP-Fusion website, and also where the multiple places that footer text is getting set at.