how do you add favicon to browser tab in 3.1.2?

peteetongman · Post by **peteetongman** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 5:57 am

I see a topic on how to do it in previous versions. just wondering if it's the same procedure

thanks

Cryo · Post by **Cryo** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:33 am

I just tested this on my forum (3.1.2) and seems to work fine.
https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... a-favicon/

david63 · Post by **david63** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:29 am

I believe that with modern browsers you need do nothing more than put a favicon in the root of your forum

Dragosvr92 · Post by **Dragosvr92** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:25 am

As David said, you can just place the favicon.ico in the root of your domain and it will be loaded automatically. No need for any html edits. But i prefer to do them anyway. If you want to have a normal icon and an animated icon, you can do what i did here....

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

The first icon will be loaded by default, and if the browser supports animated gifs, it will overwrite it with the second favicon. Only works in Firefox really.... IE11 And Chrome simply load the .ico only....

david63 · Post by **david63** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:32 am

Or try this extension

1SG_Duke · Post by **1SG_Duke** » Fri May 22, 2015 5:30 pm

Hello, sorry to re-up this post but i install your extension david63 on my forum. But how does it work ??

Oyabun1 · Post by **Oyabun1** » Fri May 22, 2015 10:33 pm

Looks like you place your favicon.ico file in the root of your board installation on the server and install the extension.

Lumpy Burgertushie · Post by **Lumpy Burgertushie** » Sat May 23, 2015 1:31 am

then why do you need the extension? if you put your favicon file in the root of your board it will work anyway.

robert

Oyabun1 · Post by **Oyabun1** » Sat May 23, 2015 4:07 am

Older browser versions may not automatically read the favicon so adding the markup helps with those.

1SG_Duke · Post by **1SG_Duke** » Sat May 23, 2015 12:09 pm

Oyabun1 wrote:Looks like you place your favicon.ico file in the root of your board installation on the server and install the extension.

Thx it's works now.

nuworld · Post by **nuworld** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:24 am

david63 wrote:Or try this extension

Where are the settings located in the ACP?
I have installed this extension on my test site and see no ACP settings.

david63 · Post by **david63** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 7:53 am

nuworld wrote:I have installed this extension on my test site and see no ACP settings.

There are no ACP settings - just upload your favicon to your board root

nuworld · Post by **nuworld** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:48 pm

david63 wrote:
nuworld wrote:I have installed this extension on my test site and see no ACP settings.
There are no ACP settings - just upload your favicon to your board root

Thanks David, It works great now.

durangod · Post by **durangod** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 7:12 pm

Hi David,

In github you said you added ACP support for this but i dont see a option in any of the tabs. Is there one or is it sill just activate extension and put icon in root?

Thanks

david63 · Post by **david63** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:59 pm

[quote="durangod"In github you said you added ACP support for this but i dont see a option in any of the tabs. Is there one or is it sill just activate extension and put icon in root?[/quote]
It's a long time since I looked at this extension and from memory the ACP support is to add the favicon on ACP pages (I think I found some situations where this was not always happening)

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