NukeCops icon in Firefox browser

Private Joined: Dec 29, 2004 Posts: 40

Hey,
Anyone know how websites like NukeCops get the custom icons before the web address (in the address bar) and site name (on the window tabs) in the Firefox browser? I've been looking all over for this, but no luck.

Many thanks!

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:48 pm

You need a program to convert an image file to favicon.ico, the now-standard browser icon. Just google "favicon.ico convert" and have fun.

Site Admin Joined: Jun 18, 2004 Posts: 207

what art package do you use i see if i can find you something that will add support to it

as i use paint shop pro and photoshop myself and have exporter plugins to icon format

Steve

Private Joined: Dec 29, 2004 Posts: 40

I use Illustrator 10 and Photoshop 7.0. I'll look around also, thanks!

Private Joined: Dec 29, 2004 Posts: 40

Here's a really good link for a converter that does everything online:

http://www.htmlkit.com/services/favicon/

you can check my icon out at http://www.njdirt.com/06

Thanks again!

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:49 am

You can use any image.

Just reduce the size to 16x16 and change the filename to favicon.ico

All of this can be done using MS Paint....simple and included in every version of windows

Smile

Corporal Joined: Dec 01, 2006 Posts: 64

True, true. Nobody needs a favicon converter... I got myself a little GIF and just changed the extension, and nobody's any the wiser.

How to implement favicons, though, is quite easy. Simply put favicon.ico in your root directory (normally public_html). I reccommend you add something to the header too. In PHPNuke it's really easy: just one file needs changing. I changed meta.php but I should probably have changed something else instead... anyway, it works. Simply put the following line somewhere in between the head tags:

Code:

Nuke Soldier Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 11

ok, can anyone tell me what file to change and what exactly to add to make this work on a nuke site.... would love to have it work, not having any luck.

Thanks

Corporal Joined: Dec 01, 2006 Posts: 64

Well, waddo ya know? I've just rooted around header.php and found this:

Code:

if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/images/favicon.ico")) {
echo "<link REL=\"shortcut icon\" HREF=\"themes/$ThemeSel/images/favicon.ico\" TYPE=\"image/x-icon\">\n";
}

This is exactly the line you need. If you want a theme-specific favicon (in other words, a different favicon for each theme), go ahead and put your favicon.ico into the folder "themes/Your_Theme/images/".

If, on the other hand, you want a favicon for everything, you'll need to add something to header.php. Find the lines above, then add this just after the closing curly-bracket:

Code:

elseif (file_exists("favicon.ico")) {
echo "<link REL=\"shortcut icon\" HREF=\"favicon.ico\" TYPE=\"image/x-icon\">\n";
}

That makes it so that if there's a favicon in your root directory, it'll use that by default, but if there's a favicon in a theme's images folder, that one will override the default favicon. So just make the change then upload the favicon.ico to your root directory.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 11

FireBoar-

Thanks for you help, it worked great!