Favicon with phpnuke 7.6

Michael-CGC · Hangin' Around Joined: Apr 07, 2005 Posts: 29

Hi there

How do I make FavIcon to work on with phpnuke v7.6?

In advance thank you
Regards,
Michael

64bitguy · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:44 pm

Put the favicon.ico file in the root of your installation.

That's it.

Serafim · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:10 pm

Ok I read this Post and still not sure I know its a forgotten topic but I was wondering how to do this... Is the code inserted in the header or what

finalheaven · Regular Joined: Jul 15, 2006 Posts: 64

That will work for only firefox.

In order to get it to work for Internet Explorer, you have to play a
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
in the <head> tags of your webpage.

NOW, where's the rub: Where do you do this in ravennuke?

I'd like to know as well.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Check your theme files. Some themes override the favicon with a themed favicon...

Dauthus · Worker Joined: Oct 07, 2003 Posts: 211

finalheaven wrote:

That will work for only firefox.

In order to get it to work for Internet Explorer, you have to play a
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
in the <head> tags of your webpage.

NOW, where's the rub: Where do you do this in ravennuke?

I'd like to know as well.

Put it at the bottom of your includes/meta.php file. Either after the php closing tag like posted above, or before the php closing tag like this:

<link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\">

evaders99 · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:30 am

Yes, a theme one will automatically add the correct code

It needs to be placed in
themes/YOURTHEME/images/

finalheaven · Regular Joined: Jul 15, 2006 Posts: 64

Tried all those things. Still nothing. You can take a look at my source code here,

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kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Change this:

Code:

to this:

Code:

myrtletrees · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:36 am

Looks like it is working to me Smile

finalheaven · Regular Joined: Jul 15, 2006 Posts: 64

myrtletrees wrote:

Looks like it is working to me Smile

Well, I got a new favicon up, and it works in firefox. My IE must messed cause I still don't see it there, but if you see it, I'm fine.

myrtletrees · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:23 am

Yeah I don't see it in IE either...But hey...the favicon on my nuke sites don't work in IE either for some reason.

jaded · Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

I can never see them in IE except for here where I see Ravens. I can however always see them in firefox. It would be nice to know how but I have tried all that I can think of lol

Dauthus · Worker Joined: Oct 07, 2003 Posts: 211

If I remember right, the favicon doesn't work like it is supposed to in IE6. I am running the beta IE7 and they show up like they are supposed to.

myrtletrees · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:34 pm

Dauthus wrote:

If I remember right, the favicon doesn't work like it is supposed to in IE6. I am running the beta IE7 and they show up like they are supposed to.

ahhh

...I'll have to do a search on this subject.

myrtletrees · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:50 pm

I found out that IE only displays the favicon after the site is bookmarked.

manunkind · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:20 pm

...and it normally doesn't last past a reboot or two.

finalheaven · Regular Joined: Jul 15, 2006 Posts: 64

IE6 for the lose.

Firefox for the win. Smile

gregexp · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:22 pm

I've been playing with the favicon, And Heres some input I'd like to know if anyone has found:

If you put the favivon.ico in the nuke dir, It will add it whether or not the code is there.
But only for the page you bookmark,

For example if I bookmark index.php, It wont show on modules.php anything.

I'd like to see it stay up there whether or not its added to the favorites and see it travel throughout the site. GRRRRRRRRRR.

Ill even be ok with making it so that the site keeps the same url no matter what page they are on, this will undoubtedly mess google tap up but any ideas?

I dont know if there is a way, Ive been googling for about 4 hours on it.

finalheaven · Regular Joined: Jul 15, 2006 Posts: 64

It is indeed a major pain in the a kaching!

, that I've been confronted with again and again whenever trying to make a site for myself.

That being said, it is a small detail that can seperate your site from being some amateur piece of work to having that professional touch.

Guardian2003 · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:54 am

Have you checked other sites to see if the favicon shows on none bookmarked pages?
There source might might give you a clue.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

The simplest thing to do is put favicon.ico in your root directory. I believe that's the only place it will work with IE. You can modify your theme to get it there also, but I believe Firefox / Mozilla will default there, too.

firstwiseman · Regular Joined: Oct 11, 2005 Posts: 65

A favicon.ico file is so small, why not use it in any directory your site's visitors go to? I've copied the favicon.ico for the sites I admin to every directory users might have access to. Worked for me.

jakec · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:32 am

I've been determined to get my favicon to work in both Firefox and IE6.

It was easy to do in Firefox, just added favicon.ico to the root and bang, but IE was a bit more difficult.

I added the following to the header.php:

Code:

echo '<link rel="shortcut icon" HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">'."\n";

This seems to work fine for me, but what I did learn is not to create your image as a .bmp and then change the extension to .ico . I know everyone is going to tell me that it was obvious, but I thought it would work at the time and it did display correctly in Firefox. In the end I used Easy Icon Maker and bang it now works in IE.

To check your favicon is going to work in IE try accessing it directly by going to:

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If you get the red x then it won't work.

Guardian2003 · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:51 am

Well done!!
Now for your next task.
See if you can get it working from meta.php instead