Re: Request for Wiki Account - Sepehr Mahmoudi:

Le 13/06/2026 à 19:03, سپهر محمودی a écrit :

, Hi Internals My name is Sepehr, and I am a web developer. I would like to request a Wiki account to propose a new addition to the PHP core Proposal: A built-in function to dynamically detect and return the website's favicon URL (e.g., get_favicon()). Motivation: Currently, developers have to manually handle favicon paths. I have developed a logic that automates this process by dynamically detecting the favicon file within the project structure without requiring parameters. I believe having a standard, built-in way to handle this would improve the developer experience and make PHP more web-integrated. Requested Username: Sepehrphp Email: sepehrphpr@gmail.com I have a working prototype and I am ready to start the RFC process. Best regards, Sepehrphp HTML already defines a way to configure favicons using the <link rel="icon"> tag and its internal parameters (media, type, etc.).

If no such link is defined in the HTML code, or if the page is not HTML (pdf, json, image, etc.), most browsers will attempt at fetching the "/favicon.ico" URL, which implies that it's becoming a standardized method to both fetch an icon from a page AND create a fallback for any HTTP server. Plus, I wouldn't see the actual benefits of a "get_favicon()" function that returns a "single URL", considering that the <link rel="icon"> tag's behavior is to adapt depending on several contextual information, like "media" (which is basically a media-query), "type" (which is a mime-type, allowing compatibility with lots of different formats) and "sizes" which allows displaying different source media depending on the final displayed size: the icon in the Windows taskbar will be smaller than a shortcut for this website on a mobile's homepage, so the first one can use a lightweight ".ico" image, and the last one can use a scalable SVG for instance. I'm curious about what exactly your RFC would provide.