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Informations about the package avatarer
Avatarer - Social media avatars for Laravel 5
Easy get avatars from social services like Facebook.com and Gravatar.com
- initially package was build for Laravel 5 but it can work as standalone library too.
- Supported Providers
- Installation
- Registering the Package
- Usage
- Output Formating
Supported Providers
A Provider can be a social network service that allows to get it's users avatars. As for right now we support:
- Gravatar
Installation
Via composer require command
Use composer require command to install this package.
Adding package to composer.json file manually
Add package to your composer.json file:
Use composer update command to install this package.
Registering the Package
Add the Avatarer alias into your config file config/app.php:
Usage
Initialize
To ininitialize Avatarer call make() method and pass Provider name (service name like Gravatar/Facebook/Twitter):
If you want to use Avatarer library outside of Laravel framework or you
don't want to use Avatarer Facade in your Laravel application, you can do this:
or
or
Setting a user
Generating avatar with default settings is very simple and all you have to do is to call
user() method with user id as a parameter (each Provider can identify user differently
via email/id/screenname etc.):
For Gravatar we use Email:
For Facebook we use UserID:
For Twitter we use user ScreenName:
Setting avatar size
If you want to set a size of avatar that should be returned you can use size() method.
This method can take two parameters width and height and both are optional
(notice that not all providers will require or use both width and height, for example
Gravatar expects only width).
For Gravatar:
For Facebook:
Setting provider-specific options
If you want to customize avatar a little bit more you can set some additional parameters
using options() method.
For Gravatar:
For Facebook:
Methods chaining
If thats more convinient for you you can chain all methods like below:
Output Formating
Default string output
With Avatarer by using get() method you can get url string of user avatar:
Changing output format
If you wish to get output in different format like Array, Json or even HTML code
you can do that by calling get() method with Output object that implements
OutputInterface as a parameter:
To get Array (add use \Artdarek\Avatarer\Output\ToArray; at the top of your class):
To get JSON (add use \Artdarek\Avatarer\Output\ToJson; at the top of your class):
To get Object (add use \Artdarek\Avatarer\Output\ToObject; at the top of your class):
To get HTML (add use \Artdarek\Avatarer\Output\ToHtml; at the top of your class):
If you want to have more controll over returned HTML code you can pass array with
additional attributes via ToHtml() constructor, for examle:
