Favicon with phpnuke 7.6

jakec · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:00 pm

Darn it. I thought I had it sorted.

Why does it need to be in the meta.php? Confused

Guardian2003 · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:14 pm

It doesnt, I thought the pratice would be good but if I remember, you are using nukeSEO so leave it where it is Smile

jakec · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:31 pm

Phew!!!

liqiud · Regular Joined: Nov 05, 2006 Posts: 53

jakec wrote:

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.

I tried this, and while it still works in Firefox, it still doesn't work in IE. my url is

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and the icon is at

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Thanks.

Guardian2003 · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:01 pm

You have used a renamed BMP image thats why - or at least that is what Firefox browser is telling me!

gregexp · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:14 pm

Another thing that should be mentioned, IE and favicons dont mesh well, I honestly dont know why, but every single thing I have read and every person I've talked to has reported to me that there is no definate way of making favicons work in IE.

liqiud · Regular Joined: Nov 05, 2006 Posts: 53

i'll try re-creating the icon, even though it started out as a png. Sad

if that doesn't work, oh well, at least firefox is working.

jakec · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:05 pm

Like Guardian says you really do need to make sure you've got a piece of software to create proper .ico files.

I've found that sometimes if it isn't working you can click on the IE favicon and click 'n' drag it to the right, then it starts working. Odd, but it seems to work, although it doesn't really help your visitors.