I just realized it is fo ICO files only, but there are converters. And max 5KB.

Made it work though https://gallery.conram.com/

You can use https://icoconvert.com/ and select 32x32 will give you an icon at approximately the right size.

I am still a bit flabbergasted over the fact that PS wont handle ICO files.

Last edited by homdax (2021-03-20 09:53:05)

Well you basically have two options

1. code and a custom image
2. plugin and certain limitations

I have used both depending on what site and what support I could find in regards to system, plugins, etc.

The most basic - and old - method is to have a image file in icon format that you drop at the sites root, and the browser should pick it up. No code required. Must be called favicon.ico .

Using code and META tags in the code lets you choose a PNG or GIF or SVG image and skips the ICO format requirement. You define the image path:

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/jpg" href="Favicon_Image_Location"/>

Very old doc:
https://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon

And then you have specs for defining favicons for different browser, like Apples Safari that may or may not require some extra tidbit of code.

A rather complex example: https://gist.github.com/cynthiapereira/5843674

Last edited by homdax (2021-03-20 11:10:02)

The plugin places a favicon.ico into the local/ directory. However, it merely being there is not sufficient (and a favicon.ico in the document root folder is overridden, which first hand I would not had expected and be inherited per default instead), the templated page headers need to be replaced because the Piwigo themes/default/icon/favicon.ico is used there, which is what the plugin does during page delivery. I'd guess one could also replace that file instead but it would get overwritten during an upgrade.

To overcome the hard coded 5k limit (other than editing source), just ignore the upload and directly place a local/favicon.ico file, a symbolic link to your root favicon.ico does as well. Or name it differently and in local config use

$conf['PersoFavicon'] = 'basename';

without .ico extension, the help page misleadingly says file name. With that, you could easily switch favicon to a different one on occasion.

The themes/default/icon/favicon.ico replacement in the templated pages does not support multiple size .ico files, one would have to change plugins/PersoFavicon/main.inc.php function Favicon() for that.