Comments on: PHP Gravatar Class

By: ciprianmp

ciprianmp — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:27:54 +0000

You’re welcome. I know… after 1 and a half year… sorry.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:33:40 +0000

checking this out. very cool

By: Ricky Hewitt

Ricky Hewitt — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:41:36 +0000

Gravatar is already really simple to use using the PHP reference implementation (http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/php) so why not just use that? Creating an entire class to do more or less the same things seems pointless to me.

Anyone want to elaborate for me as to why such a class is required..?

By: sean

sean — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:05:53 +0000

Will it work?

By: Hieu Vo

Hieu Vo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:13:00 +0000

I appreciate your work a lots, ciprianmp

By: ciprianmp

ciprianmp — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:48:33 +0000

Ok, I worked it around and it works fine.
I used a TalkPHPGravatar class posted and improved here: http://www.talkphp.com/script-giveaway/1905-gravatar-wrapper-class.html
Now… what I got is:
http://ciprianmp.com/plus – Gravatarized phpMyChat-Plus – first LiveChat to fully support gravatars!!!
It will be included in the soon to come release of 1.93 version

PS: Who do I announce about gravatars availability in my app? Matt? Apokalyptik? Thehline?
Thanks for all the resources and hints guys!

By: Ciprian M.

Ciprian M. — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:05:27 +0000

Well, not all get that id, just those with an empty email address. It would be better to return that default hash for all non-registered emails as well. It doesn’t help anyone to get millions of hashes for the same default image.
So my suggestion is: if an email doesn’t exist in the gravatar.com database, the hash remain always the same (“d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e”) – that’s the best way for now to control the cash – for all unidentified users it will be cached a single file, and then the same file (blue G image or identicon and so on) will be displayed for all of those users. A lot more economical from the bandwidth and storage point of view!!! Which might be critical to avoid outages, including the gravatar.com servers…

Does anyone from the Gravatar.com team follow this? Please drop a line…
Thanks!

By: Ciprian M.

Ciprian M. — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:19:48 +0000

Ok, I’m back (talking to no one though…)
Anyway,
I discovered all the “G” images are identified by this default gravar_id: “d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e”
Filtering that string with an eregi() helped me keep out of cache all the default “G” images returned for users/emails that don’t have a gravatar defined/registered. Which is a great tip for my first comment above!

(wouldn’t have been a lot nicer to get this answer from a “gravatar professional/expert”? thank you for the great service and let us do the rest of the job – good strategy lol)

By: Ciprian M.

Ciprian M. — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:49:26 +0000

No comments at all? hmmm… I might start doing it myself… tonight

By: Ciprian M.

Ciprian M. — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:15:52 +0000

Does anyone know of a Generic Gravatar sign-up script?
All I find everywhere is word-press related plugins for gravatars… What the H? Word-press is the only thing out there for coders nowadays?