Magento: customize footer

customize footer
<?php
$URL="http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "/sites/default/files/magento/footer/footer.phtml.diff";
echo "$URL";
echo "

";
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
echo htmlspecialchars(curl_exec($c));
curl_close($c);
echo "

";
?>

remove footer links
<?php
$URL="http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "/sites/default/files/magento/footer/local.xml";
echo "$URL";
echo "

";
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
echo htmlspecialchars(curl_exec($c));
curl_close($c);
echo "

";
?>

Links
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