I was searching the web and I found an article on the Zend Form Decorators that was very informative. The author does a great job of taking you from the basic concept of a Decorator Pattern through to the Zend Framework implementation of decorators for the Zend Form. I found the article so useful that I decided to link to it here to give the author a well deserved plug. If you are new to the Zend Framework as I am then I highly recommend checking this article out.
http://devzone.zend.com/article/3450-Decorators-with-Zend_Form
After years of having the legendrefamily.org domain I have finally decided to do more with it than provide a root domain for my lightly visited blog. In my ongoing efforts to embrace and ultimately understand the Zend Framework I have decided to build the site using 1.7 version of the framework. For only the second time I’m patiently working my way through the Zend Framework Quick Start tutorial found at http://framework.zend.com/docs/quickstart.
In the coming months I intend to share my impressions of the framework as I progress through the solution. I intend to share my insights and frustrations with a clinical eye for how they can be leveraged or over come as the case may be. Please check back from time to time and see how I’m progressing.
I decided that I wanted to add a little more polish to my blog by adding a web site logo. I did a quick google search and found a reference for doing this here. Below are the steps I took and the issues I encountered.
- I searched the internet for a 16 x 16 Icon (.ico file) that I wanted to use. In my case I found some interesting free icons at http://dryicons.com/free-icons, but there are many other sites you could use.
- Since the icons provided were .png files I needed a utility to convert the one I chose to a .ico file. I used the free online converter at Convertico.com to accomplish this.
- I renamed the file favicon.ico and copied it into the root folder of my web site, in my case http://www.legendrefamily.org/.
- I started up Google Chrome and navigated to the page I had created. On the current tab in place of the standard blank page Icon that Chrome nomrally uses was the Icon I had chosen for my site.
It was as simple as that. I did experiment more with the icon and found some unusual behavior. I noticed that it did not appear when I viewed the site using IE7 and did appear in Google Chrome. I also noticed that when I deleted the favicon.ico file Google Chrome continued to display the Icon on the tab containing my web site. Then I tried putting a new favicon.ico file with a different image and the tab image did not change. I tried opening and closing the browsers and restarting the web server and neither of these fixed the issue. It was only after an hour or so of not using the browser that the Icon changed.
I did some additional research and found that my issues were not uncommon. Follow the link here and look in the Troubleshooting section of this page if you want to find out more. After reviewing this I plan to use the code below as an alternate method of displaying an Icon on my site on a page by page basis and see how that works.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
