Different favicons for a parked domains?

RJ · 09-13-2005, 12:46 AM

Quandary: How can I serve a different favicon for a parked domain?

I have several parked domains using the same hosting account. PHP is used to detect the domain and serve different content for that domain. I'd like to also serve a different favicon.ico for each of the parked domains.

What's the solution?

dgaussin · 09-13-2005, 01:02 AM

I'm sure there's a lot of solution, but the first way I'd try is the following.

In the .htaccess use ForceType to force Apache to use PHP handler when delivering the file "favicon.ico". Write a simple php script returning the .ico mime type then an .ico content file and use your database to pick up the right favicon.ico

That could be worked

RJ · 09-13-2005, 01:21 AM

I like that solution a lot. Serving favicon.ico as a forced PHP script and using it to pick the right .ICO file would probably work great.

To serve a PNG file I would do this,

$im = imagecreatefrompng("test.png");
imagepng($im);

How would you do the same thing with .ICO files?

dgaussin · 09-13-2005, 01:37 AM

You don't have to create an .ico file, just open and read an .ico file and send the content to browser.

Even somethig like could work :

$icon = file_get_contents('domain1.ico');
header ("Content-type: image/jpeg");
echo $icon;

RJ · 09-13-2005, 01:52 AM

Originally Posted by dgaussin

You don't have to create an .ico file, just open and read an .ico file and send the content to browser.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/123315-different-favicons-for-a-parked-domains.html

Even somethig like could work :

$icon = file_get_contents('domain1.ico');
header ("Content-type: image/jpeg");
echo $icon;

Thanks, David. I was trying to make it more complicated than I needed to.

Time to put this altogether now and code it.

For future reference, I found that the MIME type for favicon files is "image/vnd.microsoft.icon"

dgaussin · 09-13-2005, 01:57 AM

Seems favicon has a lot of mime type

The best is to use the mime type used by the server...

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09-13-2005, 01:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
dgaussin Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: France Posts: 1,226 Follow @dgaussin	I'm sure there's a lot of solution, but the first way I'd try is the following. In the .htaccess use ForceType to force Apache to use PHP handler when delivering the file "favicon.ico". Write a simple php script returning the .ico mime type then an .ico content file and use your database to pick up the right favicon.ico That could be worked

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dgaussin Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: France Posts: 1,226 Follow @dgaussin	You don't have to create an .ico file, just open and read an .ico file and send the content to browser. Even somethig like could work : $icon = file_get_contents('domain1.ico'); header ("Content-type: image/jpeg"); echo $icon;

09-13-2005, 01:57 AM	#6 (permalink)
dgaussin Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: France Posts: 1,226 Follow @dgaussin	Seems favicon has a lot of mime type The best is to use the mime type used by the server...

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