How to get a website's favicon with PHP?

Question

I want to get, requested website\'s favicon with PHP. I have been recommended using Google\'s favicon service but it is not functional. I want to do something on my own but

Answer 1

If you want to retrieve the favicon from a particular website, you simply need to fetch favicon.ico from the root of their website. Like so:

$domain = "www.example.com";
$url = "http://".$domain."/favicon.ico";
$icondata = file_get_contents($url);

... you can now do what you like with the icon data