Major Additions - [OzzModz] Advanced Footer

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This is a pretty cool mod that completely redesigns your forums footer. It adds everything into a block, and has four columns to display different info in them.
Inspiration came from Advanced Footer Rework coded by The Rocketeer and Awesome footer with Social Icons coded by socialteenz. Problem with those two mods that I had is it was all template editing, and I really don't like template edit mods on sites, I prefer it is all done automatically.

Another feature of this mod, is there is settings for the mod, that you can enter any custom code that any other mods have told you to add to the beginning or end of your footer. Again, this is designed so you do not have to do template editing.

It is a simple installation, upload the contents of the UPLOAD folder then import the product XML, ozzmodz_advanced_footer

You can edit the options under the settings, [OzzModz] Advanced Footer Settings
There is three ACP interface pages to add/edit the recommended links, quick links and the social media links.

Below is what the mod looks like running on the site.



Major Features

No Additional Queries: The awesome part of this mod is it uses the datastore, so it adds no additional queries to the site.

Disable On Styles: You can disable this mod on any style, in case it breaks the style.

Interactive Main ACP Pages: When viewing the links you added, you can set the display order, toggle the active status, toggle the _nofollow and toggle if the site opens in a new tab or same tab, all without editing each entry individually.

Unlimited Links: You can have as many links in each column as you want, there is no limits..

Usergroup Permissions: When adding or editing a link, you can select which usergroups can see the link.

Complete Feature List

General Settings

• Option to disable the mod completely.
• Option to disable the mod on certain styles, in case it breaks the style.
• Option set which way you want the About column to show the text from.
• Setting to enter the text for the About column, if you don't want to use the meta description.
• Setting to enter any code another mod may have told you to add in the beginning of your footer.
• Setting to enter any code another mod may have told you to add in the end of your footer.
• Setting to enter any additional links you want displayed in the footer links area ( where the contact us admin mod etc. links are ).
• Setting to set the image width of the social media images.
• Setting to set the image height of the social media images.
• Option to enable/disable the About column.
• Option to enable/disable the Recommended Links column.
• Option to enable/disable the Quick Access Links column.
• Option to enable/disable the Social Media Links column.
• Option to enable/disable the Archive Links.
• Option to set which usergroups can view the Archive Links.
• Option to enable/disable the RSS Links.
• Option to set which usergroups can view the RSS Links.
  
  Adding/Editing Recommended Links
• Setting to enter the links title.
• Setting to enter the link URL.
• Setting to enter the link description.
• Setting to enter the display order for the link in the column.
• Option to set if the link is active or not.
• Option to set if the link is a _nofollow link.
• Option to choose if the link should open in a new tab or not.
• Setting to choose which usergroups can see the link in the column.
  
  Adding/Editing Quick Links
• Setting to enter the links title.
• Setting to enter the link URL.
• Setting to enter the link description.
• Setting to enter the display order for the link in the column.
• Option to set if the link is active or not.
• Option to set if the link is a _nofollow link.
• Option to choose if the link should open in a new tab or not.
• Setting to choose which usergroups can see the link in the column.
  
  Adding/Editing Social Media Links Settings
• Setting to enter the links title.
• Setting to enter the link URL.
• Setting to enter the social media's image name.
• Setting to enter the link description.
• Setting to enter the display order for the link in the column.
• Option to set if the link is active or not.
• Option to set if the link is a _nofollow link.
• Option to choose if the link should open in a new tab or not.
• Setting to choose which usergroups can see the link in the column.

There is 31 social media icons in the images folder for you to use, or you can upload your own.

Frequently Asked Questions.

Q. Why do I need such a thing, you ask?

A. Maybe you are like me and are tired of the same old footer layout.

Q. I want the text aligned to the left, not centered, how do I change it?

A. Edit the stylevar, ozzmodz_advanced_footer_alignment, found under the group OzzModz.


I would like to thank, kh99, nerbert and Scandal, for giving me some help solving some issues I was having while developing this mod.

Members that donated towards this mod.
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* History (Changelog) *
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v1.0.0 (November 24, 2014)
- Initial public release.

[RichieBoy67]

Drama may have been a bit strong for a description.

[ozzy47]

I guess you mean the bit where Skyrider thought that there was stuff missing, I just think he/she posted a bit to fast before testing the mod, it was no biggie.

[Nirjonadda]

Link Title not working if Long with UTF-8 , Please fix on this bug issue.

[ozzy47]

Ummm, need more of a explanation than that, what is it exactly you are trying to add?

[Nirjonadda]

If i want Link Title is "আসুন নির্জনে আড্ডা মারি" then Save, Now only show me Link Title "আসুন নির্জনে আড্"

[ozzy47]

Well that is strange, google translate says those two are not even close to saying the same thing.

[Nirjonadda]

Then my bad luck , I can not use any mod from your released !

[ozzy47]

I just added, আসুন নির্জনে আড্ডা মারি as a link title, and it shows correctly on my site.

In phpmyadmin, in the table ozzmodz_advanced_footer_quick, what is the collation of the link_title?

[Nirjonadda]

Collation is latin1_swedish_ci

[ozzy47]

Hmmm, as well as mine, not entirely sure what would cause it to change like that.