antilyrical@spamcop.net wrote:

At the bottom of the standard monobook skin it has a "footer" that says " This page was last modified..." etc.. How do I change what appears in that area? Also, I if I make a change to the footer there, will it change for the other skins as well?

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Firstly, I think you might need to edit each skin directly, but here is how to do it in Monobook:

1. Open the Monobook.php file from your Skins directory. 2. Do a search for the word 'footer'. You should find this code:

<div id="footer"> <?php if($this->data['poweredbyico']) { ?><div id="f-poweredbyico"><?php $this->html('poweredbyico') ?></div><?php } ?> <?php if($this->data['copyrightico']) { ?><div id="f-copyrightico"><?php $this->html('copyrightico') ?></div><?php } ?> <ul id="f-list"> <?php if($this->data['lastmod' ]) { ?><li id="f-lastmod"><?php $this->html('lastmod') ?></li><?php } ?> <?php if($this->data['viewcount' ]) { ?><li id="f-viewcount"><?php $this->html('viewcount') ?></li><?php } ?> <?php if($this->data['credits' ]) { ?><li id="f-credits"><?php $this->html('credits') ?></li><?php } ?> <?php if($this->data['copyright' ]) { ?><li id="f-copyright"><?php $this->html('copyright') ?></li><?php } ?> <?php if($this->data['about' ]) { ?><li id="f-about"><?php $this->html('about') ?></li><?php } ?> <?php if($this->data['disclaimer']) { ?><li id="f-disclaimer"><?php $this->html('disclaimer') ?></li><?php } ?> </ul> </div>

3. You should now insert lines as requried to achieve the effect you want. For example, if you want to display a little logo in the bottom left corner (Like Wikipedia's WikiMedia Logo), you can do so by inserting a line similar to the following under the <div> tag. This is what I use on my site for adding a Valid XHTML logo:

<div style="float:left; height: 1%; margin: 0 8px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /></a></div>

You can see the results here (note, rest of wiki is currently Under Construction): http://nidonocu.technoweyr.co.uk/ewiki/index.php/Special:Version

4. If you want to insert extra messages (like on my site, the powered by link for my webhost), you can insert a line in the lower lines of code, here's another except from mine:

<?php if($this->data['about' ]) { ?><li id="f-about"><?php $this->html('about') ?></li><?php } ?> <li>Powered by <a href="http://www.technoweyr.co.uk" target="_blank">Technoweyr.co.uk</a></li> <?php if($this->data['disclaimer']) { ?><li id="f-disclaimer"><?php $this->html('disclaimer') ?></li><?php } ?>

Hope this helps :)