Change footer in a joomla site through code and ftp

Question

I have a friend who has a site made in Joomla by someone else. He asked me as favour to add to his site a facebook button at the footer of the website. He gave me ftp codes. The problem is I don't know where exactly to place the link with the image. I tried includes/footer.php and modules/mod_footer/mod_footer.php but nothing worked. In fact I cannot find the html code that I see when i right click on browser through "View source". I don't want any solution through panel because the guy that created this site hasn't given my friend access like "Template Manager" etc. I would like a hardcore solution please. The only thing I ask is where exactly I should place the code. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Joomla! is a database driven CMS.

The footer is usually a module being populated from the database, you won't be able to change it without /administrator access. Which your friend should already have if it's their website.

You can read about Modules on the Joomla Doc's website.

A possible approach (though not recommended as you're more likely to break the site than anything else) is to modify the template — you will find it in /templates/template_name/ . Inside that directory will be lots of files and directories you could start by looking through that. You can read about templates here .

You may find the template is based on a framework in which case you will probably want to read up on the framework before you go modifying it, some of the popular ones are:

• Gantry — http://www.gantry-framework.org
• T3 — http://t3-framework.org
• Warp — http://www.yootheme.com/themes/warp-framework

Answer 2

因为我无权访问“模板管理器”->“编辑HTML”，所以执行了以下操作，我转到了自定义模板的文件夹，然后从那里下载了index.php，然后我从那里进行了对页脚的更改用代码！

Answer 3

Assuming that the website uses cPanel web hosting or similar, then the FTP password can be used to access cPanel and phpMyAdmin.

Assuming there is an existing footer module or similar, you can find and edit the module HTML in the content column in the jos_modules table.

With phpMyAdmin access, you could also reset the admin password and access the Joomla back-end normally to add or edit the footer.