Allow admin to change the footer menu links to URL/files other than the defaults

[Carson]

On the admin/site/menu.php page, an administrator can enable or disable any footer menu items, but they cannot provide their own links other than the default hardcoded pages, i.e. terms.php, privacy.php, about.php, and contact.php. It may be desirable in some schools to be able to specify an url, for example, for the 'Terms and Conditions' page that is applicable to all the web applications throughout the school. So that, when the school updates the terms in the page, the administrator does not run the risk of forgetting to change the Mahara's terms.php page.

[Carson (carsontam)]

You can find my implementation of this feature here: https://gitorious.org/~carsontam/mahara/mahara-feature-customizable-footer-links/commit/f3037a177de55bc4aabf17dcad366c0c5640649e

Let me know if this is useful to you.

Thanks!

[Carson (carsontam)]

And this is a screenshot of the change.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Hi Carson,

That sounds like a really good feature to have!

Would you be interested in submitting it through our code review system?

Here are some instructions on creating the right accounts:

  https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Developer_Area/Developer_Tools

and here is how to submit your changes:

  https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Developer_Area/Contributing_Code

Cheers,
Francois

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Hi Carson,

It would be great if you submitted your change to the code review system that Francois mentioned. That way your change would make it into Mahara core. All additions to Mahara core go through this review system so ensure that at least 2 other people have looked at it.

As you are already a gitorius user, I doubt this will be difficult for you to do.

Cheers
Kristina

[François Marier (fmarier)]

https://reviews.mahara.org/#change,472

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/472
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/43e259114f969f6a4fa605eb81355567a0caec2d
Submitter: Hugh Davenport (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 43e259114f969f6a4fa605eb81355567a0caec2d
Author: Carson Tam <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Jul 12 17:10:43 2011 -0700

    Implemented custom links for footer menu (bug #809694)

    Allow administrators to provide their own links for the following
    links in the footer:

    terms.php
    privacy.php
    about.php
    contact.php

    Signed-off-by: Carson Tam <email address hidden>
    Change-Id: I90d2eba97bede9eca55799b1af21ae11cb4444e9

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Thanks for the patch Carson!

Your feature will be in 1.5.0.

[Carson (carsontam)]

Francois, thank you very much for making the necessary changes! Cheers.

[Dominique-Alain JAN (dajan)]

François,

I think this is a good feature I discover now... but... having the new settings in another section than "Edit site page" makes me think this is not coherent.

Couldn't we revise this to manage Site Pages, internal or external, on the same settings form ?

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

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