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**MarkStrobel3367** · 06-29-2011, 08:11 PM

I am exploring the use of favicons on my site. My site, http://www.strongfamilies.us, is in php. I just placed a favicon on the main page. It is supposed to animate. After placing the favicon code only on the main page, it appears instantly on all the pages of my site without animation as viewed through all the major browsers except for FF. In FF, it only appears on the main page. It also animates on FF.

Since my site is in php, is there a way that I could add this favicon code to some file within the Includes folder so that it appears on all the pages at once without me having to add the code to each individual page in order for it to appear in FF and intimate in all the other browsers?

Thanks.

**chrishirst** · 06-30-2011, 04:37 AM

Clear your browser cache or use Ctrl+F5 to refresh all your pages.

Just having the file called favicon.ico in the root of the folder will be sufficient for all browsers.

Quote:

Since my site is in php, is there a way that I could add this favicon code to some file within the Includes folder

If you have an include for the head section of the pages add this code to it;

HTML Code:

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

the browsers that allow animated icons will use the gif and all others should use the icon.

Infernet Exploder still does NOT support animated gifs as favicons, and I believe that Firefox is the only browser that does.

**MarkStrobel3367** · 06-30-2011, 04:14 PM

Hi, Chris. Thank you for your reply. I still cannot figure out which file to insert the code within the Includes folder. I have several header files:

header.php
ef_header.php
header-noform.php

I also have several files ending with css. I've looked through all of the above header files and I cannot find a place to insert the favicon code. Any suggestions? Thanks.

**chrishirst** · 06-30-2011, 04:16 PM

Find the file that has the <head> or </head> tags in it

**MarkStrobel3367** · 06-30-2011, 04:34 PM

Hi Chris. I just searched each file within the Includes folder for 'head'. This word doesn't appear in any of the files. Am I looking in the wrong folder? Thanks.

**Digital Friend** · 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkStrobel3367

Hi Chris. I just searched each file within the Includes folder for 'head'. This word doesn't appear in any of the files. Am I looking in the wrong folder? Thanks.

Try searching for a file with contents similar to this below :

HTML Code:

<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 6 November 2007), see www.w3.org">
<title>Building Strong Families National Seminars - Online parenting classes, Bullying conference</title>
<meta name="description" content="Building Strong Families National Seminars facilitates powerful educational conferences, parenting webinars, and family-related products with topics geared toward strengthening, empowering, and enhancing the family, schools, and the community.">
<meta name="keywords" content="online parenting classes, teaching children discipline, bullying seminars, bullying conference, teaching parenting classes, parenting advice on children with behavioral problems, teaching discipline">
<meta name="copyright" content="Building Strong Families National Seminars - 2008">
<meta name="author" content="Building Strong Families National Seminars">
<meta name="email" content="Info@StrongFamilies.us">
<meta name="Distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="Rating" content="General">
<meta name="Robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">
<meta name="Revisit-after" content="7 Days"><link href="/includes/general.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link href="/includes/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link href="/includes/nav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
 span.c4 {font-family:Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9px;color:#000000}
 a.c3 {font-family:Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9px;color:#000000}
 div.c2 {text-align: center}
 p.c1 {text-align: left}
</style>

Edited :

The contents of the <head> tag can be in one of the files in the includes folder.

**MarkStrobel3367** · 06-30-2011, 05:00 PM

No. I cannot find and codes similar to the one above on any file within the Includes folder. I believe that I added the meta codes manually per page.

**C0ldf1re** · 06-30-2011, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

... If you have an include for the head section of the pages add this code to it...

And that was exactly the code that I could not find anywhere else. Thanks, Chris!

**chrishirst** · 06-30-2011, 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkStrobel3367

Hi Chris. I just searched each file within the Includes folder for 'head'. This word doesn't appear in any of the files. Am I looking in the wrong folder? Thanks.

Then it may be scripted.

Take a look at the rendered HTML source and look for a footprint in the document head that you can use to indentify the section in the PHP code that generates the document sections.

**chrishirst** · 06-30-2011, 06:02 PM

BTW

You can remove the "revisit-after" meta element completely. The element was created by Vancouver Webpages (long since defunct) for their own search engine. No Internet search engine has ever used it. But if they did, it would be an instruction NOT to return for at least the period specified in the content attribute.

**MarkStrobel3367** · 06-30-2011, 06:46 PM

Hi Chris,

The following script is what appears on all my pages that references the Includes folder:

<link href="/includes/general.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link href="/includes/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link href="/includes/nav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

I searched general.css, layout.css, and nav.css and I cannot find the word 'head' in it. Do you have any further suggestions?

**MarkStrobel3367** · 07-01-2011, 02:05 AM

Hi Chris,

Are you saying that I should add the favicon code to either general.css, layout.css, or nav.css? If so, which one should I place the code on? Thanks.

**Ekushey** · 03:31 AM

@MarkStrobel3367

This is your header section, this is where your faviocon code will go -- anywhere before </head>.

Code:

<head> <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 6 November 2007), see www.w3.org"> <title>Building Strong Families National Seminars - Online parenting classes, Bullying conference</title> <meta name="description" content="Building Strong Families National Seminars facilitates powerful educational conferences, parenting webinars, and family-related products with topics geared toward strengthening, empowering, and enhancing the family, schools, and the community."> <meta name="keywords" content="online parenting classes, teaching children discipline, bullying seminars, bullying conference, teaching parenting classes, parenting advice on children with behavioral problems, teaching discipline"> <meta name="copyright" content="Building Strong Families National Seminars - 2008"> <meta name="author" content="Building Strong Families National Seminars"> <meta name="email" content="Info@StrongFamilies.us"> <meta name="Distribution" content="Global"> <meta name="Rating" content="General"> <meta name="Robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW"> <meta name="Revisit-after" content="7 Days"><link href="/includes/general.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link href="/includes/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link href="/includes/nav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <style type="text/css">  span.c4 {font-family:Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9px;color:#000000}  a.c3 {font-family:Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9px;color:#000000}  div.c2 {text-align: center}  p.c1 {text-align: left} </style> </head>

You should be able to find the code on header.php (paste it here if you want to), and not on your CSS files. You might also want to search for file name meta*.php if the code block is not on header.php.

**MarkStrobel3367** · 07-02-2011, 02:28 PM

Thank you so much for all your recommendations. I added the favicon code to header.php and now the favicon appears on all the pages. The only issue that I have is that it is only animated while viewing the site with FF. I am not concerned about this issue though, as long as the favicon appears on all the pages. This issue is now resolved!!