footer.php recursion

Why does footer.php include <?php wp_footer(); ?> call?

It acts as a hook for plugins and is considered an essential theme hook.

does the new foot.php also include call <?php wp_footer(foot1.php); ?>?

Yes.

Seems not to matter.
Calling <?php get_footer(foot2.php); ?> displayed footer.php.
Here’s my page file:

<?php
 /* Template Name: page(foot2) */
get_header(); ?>
<div id="content" class="" role="main" style="width:700px;padding:0 0 0 20px;">
		<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<!-- 		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2> -->
		<!-- 	<div class="entry">   -->
			<div style="width:740px;">
				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
				<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
			</div>
		</div>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	</div>
<?php get_footer(foot2.php); ?>
<br />

and my foot2.php

<?php  /* Template Name: foot2 */ ?>
<div id="footer" role="contentinfo" style="width:720px; margin:0 auto; border-top:1px #ccc solid;">
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Wordpress modified by xxxxx.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="longurl">Contact Webmaster</a></span>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="anotherurl/blog/">blog</a>
<br /><br />
</div>
</div>
<?php /* "Just what do you think you're doing Dave?" */ ?>
		<?php wp_footer(foot2.php); ?>
</body></html>

I’m okay editing page.php and footer.php, but not in letting more than one footer be selected.

Is no one willing to explain making different footers on different pages? I thought I followed the docs.

use <? include (foot2.php) ?>

I manage to get alternate footers by this code. However the background-color won’t change according to the css file. What is overriding this? I didn’t know where else to post this. Anyone?

`<?php if (is_page(’21’) ) : ?>

<?
include( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/footer.php’ );
?>

<?php else : ?>

<?
include( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/foot2.php’ );
?>

<?php endif; ?> `

CSS:

#footer{
	width:100%;
	height:300px;
	background-color:#fff;
	float:left;
	margin:0px 0px 40px 0px;
}

#foot2{
	width:100%;
	height:200px;
	background-color:#bedef5;
	float:left;
	margin:0px 0px 40px 0px;
}