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Favicon.ico: How to upload this in Q&A site

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Q2A version: 1.5

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1. You need to upload your favicon.ico to the root folder of your Q2A script.
2. In your advanced theme add such a function:
function head_custom()
{
    $this->output('<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">');
}

I think it is a lack in Q2A system, that favicon is not defined by default.
Could you add this code and default favicon to the core, GidGreen ?
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Thanks Krzysztof Kielce... :) It really solved my Problem
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If the favicon.ico is in the root directory of your website, you shouldn't need to refer to it in any way from the HTML. Browsers look for it there automatically.
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Not all. I use Ch 16, FF 3.6, IE 8. And only under Chrome favicon is detected when I don't put the above mentioned meta tag. Maybe it is a localhost issue - I didn't test it online. However it would be nice to be working in all possible environments, isn't it ?
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Thanks Gidgreen... It would be great if you can answer my query posted on this link
http://www.question2answer.org/qa/12189/user-profile-page-with-image
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I think it must be a localhost issue, since I see favicons for other sites in other browsers without the tag. Anyway, you can also do this without an advanced theme by using the admin setting "Custom HTML in <HEAD> section of every page".
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Hi Gidgreen... I used this function

function head_custom()
{
    $this->output('<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">');
}

and it worked...
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Gooda! You are right, Gidgreen, favicon works without metatag when online (at least on Ch 16, FF 3.6, IE 8).
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I tried to use this technique but it didn't work.
I have installed question2answer 1.5 on an offline Wordpress blog. Since I'm using the default theme, I added a qa-theme.php file to the Default directory.
I then uploaded the favicon file inside the main folder of Question2Answer.
Finally I pasted in the php file only the following content:
<?php

    class qa_html_theme extends qa_html_theme_base
    {
        function head_custom()
        {
            $this->output('<link rel="shortcut icon" href="logosquare.ico">');
        }   
       
    }

However, the favicon is not shown. What could it be the cause?
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No idea why. Try changing logosquare.ico into favicon.ico.
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Thank you, it worked, although strange.
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