favicon enhanced

[eh]

Hi

There's the UDT provided by Christophe Lambrechts to display a favicon in the browser. See here for the details: http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/Share_your_tags_here#favicon.

If you search the forum for "favicon" you'll notice that there can be troubles with the location of the favicon. One solution to this issue is to provide the full URL to the favicon, i.e.http://mycms/myimages/favicon.ico

Here's the code snippet how I extended Christophe's UDT to prepend the icon name with the http-part:

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f(isset($params['static']))

   global $gCms;

   $favicon_path = $gCms->config['root_url']  . "/"  . $params['static'];

   echo '<link rel="shortcut icon" href="'.$favicon_path.'" type="image/x-icon" /link>'."\n"; 

  ...

In your template call the UDT like this:

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{favicon static="myimages/favicon.ico"}

whereby "myimages" is located below the root folder of your CMSMS installation. Make sure that Apache or any other web server can access the icon by manually entering the full URL in a browser for test:

http://mycms/myimages/favicon.ico

This should work for all browsers (don't know if there are any performance penalties, though).

[Elise]

This is nice, thank you!

[Felix]

Thank you, eh.

I searched all over the place for ages looking for a way to get the favicon to work.  Your UDT worked a treat!

Cheers,

Felix

[faglork]

Maybe I am dense ... but why use an UDT?

Why not simply put the favicon code in the header?

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<link rel="icon" href="/url/to/favicon.ico" type="image/gif" />

Do I miss something?

Cheers,
Alex

[nicmare]

or why dont you do it like me?

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<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="{root_url}/favicon.ico" />

or do i miss something??