Favicon override in case of update - local folder not working

oorzaak

Hi,

According to the instructions for T3 templates, a custom favicon will be safe from overrides in case of template updates when it is located in the folder templates/{template name}/local, eg.:

templates/t3_bs3_blank/local/favicon.ico

However, I noticed on this site that this seems not to work. When the favicon is present at the location above, the default favicon is shown. Also, in the html source I see the path to the default favicon location. So this is not a caching issue.

What did I do wrong? Are the instructions for this template different from other templates?

I did find a workaround for this - two in fact, yet only one of them worked:

In the template style, on the tab Custom Code, in the field "Before </head>", I added the full html for loading the custom favicon. This worked, though both favicons show up in the source code. My custom favicon is shown because it is the last one that is loaded.
I also tried a patch that I found on the internet: https://nerdia.net/2018/02/27/add-custom-favicon-ico-to-t3-bootstrap-framework-for-joomla/ However, in this case both favicon locations show up in the html source as well - but this time the default favicon is the last one that's loaded so the default favicon is shown.

So for now, my first workaround is doing the job. Still I think that it is not good practice to have both favicon definitions in the source code. So if it is possible to solve this in another way, then I would be happy.

Kind regards, Frits

EDIT: I see now that my workaround does not work on all browsers, though I do see both favicon definitions in the source code. This might be due to caching; I'm not sure.

teitbite

oorzaak Hi, loading multiple favicons or having 2 of the same type is fine, but a proper way of fixing this should be to place head.php file in /local folder and change the path in it's file to the other favicon. Also I'm not sure if joomla itself will not use it's root folder to overwrite it.

oorzaak

Hi Teitbite,

Thanks for your reply. Do you mean that I should put the head.php file in this folder:
templates/t3_bs3_blank/local/tpls/blocks ?

That's what I did when trying the second workaround that I mentioned - the one that caused both my custom favicon and the default favicon to show up in the source code, yet only the default favicon was visible to the users.

When I was trying this workaround I looked for a reference to the default favicon in the head.php file but I could not find it. If you could help me to find this reference I'd be very happy. Or, if it's Joomla itself that causes the default favicon to be put in the head, then maybe you can tell me where I can override that?

Kind regards, Frits

saguaros

Hi Frits,

Firstly, you put the 'head.php' file into local folder:

[root]/templates/t3_bs3_blank/local/tpls/blocks/head.php

Open this file and add below code at the end of file to load favicon.ico file from local folder:

<!-- Load local favicon.ico -->
<?php
if (is_file(T3_TEMPLATE_PATH . '/local/favicon.ico')) {
$this->addFavicon(T3_TEMPLATE_URL . '/local/favicon.ico');
}
?>
<!-- //Load local favicon.ico -->

And make sure you have this file already: /local/favicon.ico

Regards