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

echo "$URL";
echo "<div><pre>";
</pre></div>

$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($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 "<div><pre>";
</pre></div>

$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);

echo htmlspecialchars(curl_exec($c));

curl_close($c);

echo "";

?>

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