OK… as it sometimes goes i cant rest until i find
a way and i found a way to get the fave icon to
proeprly display using google 🙂
its really simple:
// here i get my URL from my custom post type
$directoryNoHttpUrl = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'directory_url', true );
//here i clean the url from HTTP or it wont work
$directoryNoHttpUrl = str_replace("http://", "", $directoryNoHttpUrl);
// here i get the favICON using google..
$imgurl = "http://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain=" . $directoryNoHttpUrl;
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So.. from here on its easy.
Sorry to trouble anyone entering to help
but thanks for your intention
Cheers, Sagive.