User Footer Copyright

User Footer Copyright
Summary	Allows users to add a user copyright to their site
Validation	Latest mods are XHTML compliant.
Mod Updated	15 Mar 2020
Download link	For TNG 14.0 TNG 13.0 user_footer_copyright_v13.0.0.11.zip For GDPR user_footer_copyright_gdpr_v13.0.0.11a.zip For GDPR only TNG 13.0 TNG 12.3.0 user_footer_copyright_gdpr_v12.3.0.10.zip For TNG 13.0 TNG 12.1.0 user_footer_copyright_v12.1.0.9.zip user_footer_copyright_gdpr_v12.1.0.9.zip For TNG 12.0.1 user_footer_copyright_v12.0.1.8a.zip user_footer_copyright_gdpr_v12.0.1.8a.zip For TNG 12.0 user_footer_copyright_v12.0.0.6a.zip [Show Previous Versions] For TNG 11.0 TNG 10.1.2 user_footer_copyright_v10.1.2.5a.zip For TNG 10.1.1 user_footer_copyright_v10.1.1.3.zip with Mobile Media v10.1.1.4 mod user_footer_copyright_v10.1.1.4.zip For TNG 10.1.0 user_footer_copyright_v10.1.0.2.zip with Mobile Media v10.1.0.4 mod user_footer_copyright_v10.1.0.4.zip For TNG 10.0 user_footer_copyright_v10.0.0.1.zip [Hide Previous Versions]
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Author(s)	Ken Roy
Homepage	User Footer Copyright (This page)
Mod Support	TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer	TNG Community Forums
Latest Mod	13.0.0.11 for TNG v13+ 12.3.0.10 for TNG V12.3+-GDPR version only 12.1.0.9 for TNG V12.1+ 12.0.1.8a and 12.0.1.8-GDPRa for TNG V12.0.1 12.0.0.6a for TNG V12 10.1.2.5a for TNG V10.1.2 10.1.1.4 for TNG V10.1.1 with Mobile Media v10.1.1.4 10.1.0.4 for TNG V10.1.0 with Mobile Media v10.1.0.4 10.1.1.3 for TNG V10.1.1 and above 10.1.0.2 for TNG V10.1 10.0.0.1 for TNG V10 and above
Min TNG V	10.0.0
Max TNG V	14+
Files modified	genlib.php tngpdf.php stdsitecredit.php
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Notes

Purpose of the Mod

TNG V10 moved the contents of the footer.php to genlib.php to allow easier footer switching for Mobile Mode Display. While it is still possible to add User Site Copyright information to the template footer.php file, it is now easier to modify the code in genlib.php.

This mod adds a site specific Copyright to the TNG footers so users do not need to edit the footer.php file nor other TNG files to do so, but rather update the Custom Copyright Start in Setup >> General Settings >> Site Design section and change custom text variables as appropriate if they want different text displayed.

This mod further ensures the Site Copyright is displayed on the Print pages and PDF created pages.

V12.0.1.8-GDPR version puts the Data Protection Policy on a separate line and adds an Imprint link if enabled

Developer

Mod Developer is Ken Roy.

Requirements

• A working TNG installation.
• A backup of all affected files (see the list in the summary in the upper right corner of the page)
• An installed current version of the Mod Manager.

Revision History

Mod Version	Date	Contents
13.0.0.11a	04 Mar 2023	GDPR version only updated to add Hungarian-UTF8 thanks to Ingrid who posted the changes on the forum
13.0.0.11	19 Apr 2021	Updated to eliminate PHP 7 notices and PHP 8 warnings Added Polish-UTF8 thanks to Michał Jarociński who also beta tested the mod standardized the mod version
12.3.0.10	15 Mar 2020	GDPR version only updated for TNG 12.3 beta for https link to TNG site. Non GDPR version does not require code change. Same code version as the 12.3.0.10_beta2 version of the mod. Updated to remove beta from mod name
12.3.0.10	25 Feb 2020	GDPR version updated for TNG 12.3 beta for https link to TNG site. Non GDPR version does not require code change.
12.1.0.9	20 Feb 2019	Updated for TNG 12.1 beta. Code change provided by Roger Moffat
12.0.1.8a 12.0.1.8-GDPRa	17 Jul 2018	Updated to correct Dutch translations in the GDPR version and add them to the other version
12.0.1.8 12.0.1.8-GDPR	17 Jul 2018	Updated to handle 2 variations of the genlib.php code since Darrin added a fix to the zip files released on 26 Jun 2018 Added a GDPR version that puts the Data Protection Policy on a separate line and adds an Imprint link if enabled
12.0.1.7a	10 Jun 2018	Updated to add %fileoptional parameters for TNG 12.0.1 beta (patch12_GDPR) for those users who still continue to delete language folders
12.0.1.7	01 Jun 2018	Updated for TNG 12.0.1 beta (patch12_GDPR)
12.0.0.6a	03 May 2018	Added German language text variables
12.0.0.6	01 May 2018	Updated for code changes in TNG 12 to replace the new Maintained by message
10.1.2.5a	19 Jul 2015	Updated for the production version of TNG 10.1.2 where The Next Generation link in stdsitecredit.php now opens in a new window.
10.1.2.5	10 Jul 2015	Updated for TNG 10.1.2. Also changed The Next Generation link to be in a new window.
10.1.1.4 10.1.0.4	14 Jun 2015	Updated to support Mobile Media mod changes in genlib.php to support the image preview jQuery script that will be in the next TNG upgrade
10.1.1.3	05 Apr 2015	Updated for TNG 10.1.1
10.1.0.2	12 Feb 2015	Updated for TNG 10.1
10.0.0.1	4 Feb 2014	Updated to show the Copyright symbol correctly in the PDF footer change for both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
10.0.0.0	21 Feb 2014	Original version of the mod

Installation

1. Uninstall and delete previous version of this mod (if installed)
2. Download the appropriate zip file as shown in the mod summary in the upper right corner of the page.
3. Extract the file from the downloaded zip file into the mods folder or FTP the extracted file to your mods folder.
4. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files to install the mod.
5. NOTE - if your site is using the TNG-WordPress plugin, you have to go to your WordPress Admin page to the TNG settings and click the "Update TNG Variables" button AFTER you have entered your start date and Custom Footer Message.

In the event of a problem

• Try using the Mod Manager Remove capability
• Copy the backup of the affected files back to your TNG directory
• Contact us through the TNG Community Forums.

Uninstalling the mod

If you want to completely Remove (uninstall) this mod and any tables if created, you should

1. click the Uninstall button to uninstall the mod
2. click the Delete button to delete the config file from the mods folder.

Upgrade

• Uninstall and eventually Delete the current Mod.
• Proceed as for an installation with the new Mod.

Custom Text

The following custom text is provided for the English and English-UTF8 cust_text.php files

// added for User Footer Copyright mod
$admtext['copyrightstart'] = "Custom Copyright Start Year";
$text['usercreatedby'] = "Created and maintained by ";
$text['usercopyright'] = "Copyright ©";
$text['userrights'] = "All rights reserved.";

Note that the copyright symbol is not entered as shown above in the English and English-UTF8 cust_text.php updates made by the Mod Manager cfg file because the file is ANSI and I do not want to provide both an ANSI and UTF8 version of the cfg file. HTML special codes only work when displayed by the browser, which is not the case with creating a PDF file.

If you want different text for your site footer, then the easiest thing to do is to add the text variables you want to override to your cust_text.php file after the mod is installed. Do NOT modify the mod, but either manually or with an override mod add your changes to the cust_text.php file at the bottom of the cust_text.php file just before the terminating ?> line.

Since PHP uses the last occurrence of the $text variable, you can add the custom text variables you want to change after the mod is installed. For example, you could add the following after the above either manually or as an override mod

//  My overrides to the User Footer Copyright mod
$text['userrights'] = "Please contact us with your suggestions.";

French

My French translation is as follows. The file download was removed since HTML codes for accents get displayed as test strings. It is easier to update the cust_text.php file directly in the correct language folder where the files should already have the correct charset encoding. Note that I show the copyright symbol in this case since the cust_text.php will be in the correct encoding.

// added for User Footer Copyright mod
$admtext['copyrightstart'] = "Année de début des droits d'auteur";
$text['usercreatedby'] = "créé et entretenu par";
$text['usercopyright'] = "Droits d'auteur ©";
$text['userrights'] = "Tous droits réservés";

Visualization of this mod

The User Footer Copyright mod adds a Custom Copyright Start Year field for you to enter the year you originally launched your TNG web site.

It also uses the Site Name and Site Owner fields and some custom text variables

to generate a Site Copyright statement

Known Issues

The following are a couple of known issues and how to handle them.

• PDF Footer text now overlays the PDF creation date
• Question mark is displayed for copyright symbol on public site and a square box in the PDF footer
• User modified footer from a prior version of TNG
• Will not work with Templates 6, 8, and 12 in TNG v10 until TNG V10.0.1 which will provide the updated footer.php files for those templates to use the TNG Copyright from genlib.php.
  

See section below on how you can modify the footer.php for these 3 templates until then

Text Overlay

To correct the text overlay if your footer copyright is now too long in the PDF footer, you can change the fontSizeLarge to fontSizeSmall in tngpdf.php around lines 442 and 478 so that they are

    $this->SetFont($footerConfig['font'], '', $footerConfig['fontSizeSmall']);

Question Mark Display

If your site is running as UTF-8 and you get a question mark display, then you need to change the Language in your Admin >> Setup >> General Settings >> Language from English to English-UTF8

Note that if you are running as ISO-8859-1 that you must use the English language and NOT English-UTF8 to avoid garbage characters before the copyright symbol.

Modified Footer

If you use a modified footer.php or your own template, you need update your footer to include the code used by TNG v10, as shown in the changes needed for Template 6, 8, and 12 above.

Template 6, 8, and 12

TNG version:

10.0

The footer.php files in Template 6, 8, and 12 were not updated in TNG V10 for the change made to the footer for Mobile Mode Display. If you want to use this mod with those templates, you can change the following code in the footer.php file

TNG version:

≥ 10.0.1

Note that the footer.php file for these templates was fixed in TNG 10.0.1

                
                    &nbsp;&nbsp;<?php echo $text['pwrdby'];  ?> <a class="footer"  href="http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php" target="_blank">The  Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding</a> &copy;, v.  <?php echo $tng_version; ?>, <?php echo $text['writby']; ?>  Darrin Lythgoe 2001-<?php echo date('Y'); ?>

to use

            <?php
                $flags['basicfooter'] = true;
                echo tng_footer($flags);
            ?>

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your TNG site to the table below:

URL	User	Note	Mod-Version	TNG-Version	User-language
Our Roy and Boucher Family	Ken Roy	Mod Developer. I generalized my site copyright mod	13.0.0.11	TNG 14.0.4	EN, FR
Treichel-Familie.de	Andreas Treichel	Public & Private	13.0.0.11	TNG 14.0.6	DE,EN,FR,ES,PL
Roger's Ramblings	Roger Moffat		12.0.1.8a	12.0.3	EN
Royalty to Rogues	Tom Dunaway	Replaced "Copyright" lower case "c" with upper case	10.1.2.5a	10.1.2	EN
Steve's Family Tree	Steve Overton		10.0.0.0	10.0.0	EN
Chamberlain & Eidenbenz Genealogy	Graham Chamberlain		12.0.1.7a	12.0.1	EN, FR, DE, SP, NL
Stewart Family Genealogy	Michael Stewart		10.0.0.1	10.0.0	EN
Total Family History	Scott Bennett		10.0.0.1	10.0.0	EN
Genealogy Cook	Klaus Dieter Cook		10.0.0.1	10.0.0	EN,DE,SP
Polys Family Genealogy	David Polys		10.0.0.1	10.0.0	EN
Colleen & Jeff's Roots	Colleen Greene	Replaced copyright with Creative Commons license	10.0.0.1	10.0.0	EN
Farnham & Paradise Ohana	Barbara Farnham Paradise	with Modifications (Mobile & Standard sites different)	10.0.0.1	10.0.1	EN
Auf den Spuren meiner Ahnen	Michael Klein	Public/Private site	13​.0​.0​.11	TNG 14.0.3	EN, DE
Wortelboer Genealogy	Bernard Wortelboer	Public site	10.1.2.5a	11.0.0	NL, EN
DJCM.DK	Claus Martinussen	Public site	12.0.1.8a	12.0.3	DA, EN
MacomberKin	Rev. Clinton Macomber	Wonderful! Thanks	10.0.0.1	10.0.3	EN
The Duttons of New England	Darrin Dutton	Public/Private	13.0.0.11	14.0.1	EN
Our Family History	Tor Lund	Public site	12.1.0.9	12.2	NO, EN, DE
Hooley Family Links	Rick Hooley	Public/Private	See Here	See Here	EN
MOTYER Family Genealogy	John Mark Motyer	Public site	See here	See here	EN
Thurmon King's Sackett Family Database	Ted Smith	The Sackett Family Association site; open to public	10.1.1.3	10.1.1	EN
Campbell Genealogy Pages	Les Campbell	Public Site	10.1.2.5a	10.1.3	EN
Kleinmann Genealogy	John Kleinmann		13.0.0.11	14.0	EN
R G Strong Family Genealogy	Russell G Strong	Public Site	13.0.0.11	TNG 14.0.4	EN, DE, FR, NL
the Runkle project	Steve Pritt	Public Site	10.1.2.5a	11.0.2	EN
Whipple, White, Nelson & Duncan Families	Steven Whipple		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN,DA,DE,SP,NL,FR,IT and others
The Pettit Forest	Robert Pettit		10.1.2.5a	11.0.2	EN
whakapapa, online	Merv Priestley		10.1.1.3	10.1.1	EN
Family History and Ancestry	Jay Santos		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
Your Roots are Showing	Harold Craswell	Public/Private	See Here	See Here	EN
Famille Potié et ses alliés	Christophe Potié		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN, FR
Harnett Sheehan Families	Kathleen Sheehan		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
Rintoul/Bowman Family	Andrew Rintoul	Public/Private	12.0.0.6	12.0	EN
Avery Genealogy	Jim Kratoville		10.1.2.5a	11.0.2	EN
Lewis Lineage	Todd Emerson Lewis	Not a public site	10.1.2.5a	11.0.2	EN
From Blighty to Baghdad	Andrew Smith		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
OurLife Family History - McMullen Clan	Sean Thompson	Not a public site.	10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
Ancestry of the Brown Family	Misty Bearman		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
Family History and Ancestry	Jay Santos	Not a public site.	10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
Balbeag Family History	David Hill	Not a public site	10.1.2.5a	11.0.2	EN
Anderson, Kitchen, Ramirez, and Reynoso Families	Denton B. Anderson		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
McCarty-McCoy Genealogy Pages	Kelly Booth		10.1.2.5a	11.0.2	EN
Drzewo Genealogiczne Rodziny Pepel	Klemens Pepel	Not a public site	10.1.2.5a	11.0.2	EN
Familie Bitterer	Martin Bitterer	Not a public site.	10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	DE
Nordby Family	Silje Nordby		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	NO, EN
Johnson Family	Bradley J. Johnson		10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
Drzewo Genealogiczne Rodziny Pepel	Klemens Pepel	Not a public site	10.1.2.5a	11.1.0	EN
Racine d'Alsace	J-Louis Valory	Public/Private - Template 1	10.1.2.5a	11.1.1	FR
Stamboom Jongman	Roel Jongman	Public/Private site	10.1.2.5a	10.1.3	NL, DE, EN
Genealogy of the Weir and Drain Families	Beverley Stimpson	Public Site	10.1.2.5a	11.1.2	EN
The Cole / Tanner Family Tree	David Cole	Public/Private	see here	see here	EN, DE, FR, ES, NL
Die Familien Morres - Bauer - Schulz	Gero Morres	Private Site	12.0.0.6	12.0.0	DE
Madsen and Pedersen FamilieHistorie	Bo Ernlund	Private Site	12.0.0.6	12.0.0	DE
The Family of Ian Redpath and Maxine Pitt	Ian Redpath	Private Site	12.0.0.6	12.0.0	EN
Nordiske Aner	Mogens C. Fenger	Private Site	12.0.0.6	12.0.0	DA, EN
Genealogische Datenbank	JPB	Public site	see here	see here	DE, EN, FR
The Grahams of Helensburgh	Jim Graham	Public/Private	12.0.0.6	12.0.0	EN
Kemp(e) Family History	Andrew Kemp	Public site	see here	see here	EN, DE, RU
Our Acadian Family	Randal Suire	Public/Media Private	12.0.1.8a	12.0.1	EN, FR
KK's Family History	Kathy Kult	Public site (except Living are Private)	13.0.0.11a	TNG 14.0.5	EN
Our Family Tree Search	Jessica Senkyr-Robinette	Private Site	12.0.1.8a	12.0.2	EN
Familiegeschiedenis en Voorvaderen	Wim Jansen	Not a Public Site	12.0.1.8a	12.0.1	EN, DE, NL
Schuster-Pippersteiner	Ingrid Schuster	Public Site	13.0.0.11	14.0	DE, EN, CZ, HU
Auf den Spuren meiner Vorfahren	UHaase	Public/Private	10.1.3.0	12.2	DE,EN
Chari Family	Kris Chari	Public/Private	10.1.1.3	10.1.1	EN
Baza danych Rodziny Jarocińskich	Michał Jarociński	Private site	13.0.0.11	13.0.3, T7	PL, EN
The Severijns / Timmer Familytree	Rob Severijns	Public / Private	See here	See here	NL, EN
Helwegs Ahnen	Andreas Helweg	Public Site	13.0.0.11	13.1	DE, EN, DE, NL
Sejarah Thümann	Jeffrey Thümann	Public	13.0.0.11	13.0.3	NL, EN
Osage County Cousins	Larry G Banks	Public/Private	13.0.0.11	14.0	EN
Cleary Family History Online	Mike Cleary	Private	13.0.0.11	14.0.2	EN
Our Immigrant Ancestors	Jim Larson	Private	13.0.0.11	14.0.5	EN, NO
Our Ancestors and Their Descendants	Ed McClain	Private - Replaced "Copyright" lower case "c" with upper case	13.0.0.11	14.0.3 b2	EN
Carr's Garage	Regis Carr	Public & XAMPP	12.3.0.10	14.0.3	EN, DE, NO
Von den Isert’s und den Schmidt’s	Madeleine Bähler-Bonomini	Private	13.0.0.11	TNG 14.0.6	DE