PHP: How To Read Gravatar Image
Today I decided to customise my WordPress blog and I wanted add a Gravatar photo of myself on the side menu, so I decided to install PHP Code Widget and wrote the following code snippet.
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How this works is that your gravatar image is associated with an email, and to access that image you need to convert an email address to a hash value using md5 function in PHP. With that hash value you need to append it to the end of the gravatar url like this:
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/205e460b479e2e5b48aec07710c08d50
So the code below we are converting the email address to a hash value and append it to the gravatar url and you have an option to specify the image size by providing a parameter ?s=size, size has to be an numeric value eg. ?s=200. Then we echo an <img> with the src attribute pointing to the url address:
<?php
$hash = md5(strtolower(trim("name@email.com")));
$imgUrl = 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' . $hash . '?s=200';
echo "<center><img id=\"gravatar\" style=\"border:1px solid black\" src=\"" . $imgUrl . "\" /></center>";
?>