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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Remove Powered By Phoca Gallery in Joomla 2.5 and 3.0 (updated)

Phoca Gallery is an amazing photo gallery extension and its free. But they also put a backlink at the extension footer that says "Powered by Phoca Gallery" , Now sure we want to support them so that they can keep this amazing extension free always but in some condition we can not keep it like this. Because our clients will not like that kind of backlink visible on his website :) .
Now Phoca Gallery Developer change its codes with each update. So its a little hard to find where the "Powered by Phoca Gallery" text actually is.
Today i will try to write it such way so that it always work for you. Lets Start..

Remove Powered By Phoca Gallery In Joomla 2.5 (phoca gallery 3.2.3)

First Open you ftp and Go to/components/com_phocagallery/views/category/tmplEdit the default.php file. At the very bottom of the file you will see codes like thisecho $this->tmpl['emm'];Simply Delete this line or comment it out like this//echo $this->tmpl['emm'];This will remove the "Powered By Phoca Gallery" from the category image view page. In the previous version 3.2.1 this code was like this "echo $this->tmpl['dsf'];" so maybe in future they will update it with some new characters, but you can always try to remove line similar to this from the very bottom of the file.

Second Go to/components/com_phocagallery/views/categories/tmplEdit the default.php file. Here is also you will find the following code at the very bottom.echo PhocaGalleryUtils::footer();Delete it or comment it out like this//echo PhocaGalleryUtils::footer();This will remove the "Powered By Phoca Gallery" from the categories list view page.

Finally Go to/components/com_phocagallery/views/cooliris3dwall/tmplEdit the default.php file , You will find the following code at the very bottom. delete it.PhocaGalleryUtils::footer();This will remove the phoca gallery footer backlink from Cooliris 3d Wall page.

Remove Powered By Phoca Gallery In Joomla 3.0 (phoca gallery 4.0.0)

Removing phoca gallery backlink from joomla 3.0 is almost the same process, Just the code is little different. Here you need to remove the following codePhocaGalleryUtils::footer(); By editing this three files./components/com_phocagallery/views/category/tmpl/default.php
/components/com_phocagallery/views/categories/tmpl/default.php
/components/com_phocagallery/views/cooliris3dwall/tmpl/default.php
This is how you can remove the "Powered By Phoca Gallery" text from phoca gallery extension. But i strongly suggest you to make a donation before you remove their copyright text from their extension. Enjoy