Articles Tagged 'Gravatar'
How To: Implementing Gravatar in your PHP Application
AbhishekGravatar or globally recognized avatar is a service for providing globally-unique avatars for different applications. It was started by Tom Preston-Werner but it's now owned by "Automattic", the company behind WordPress. This is the main reason why this service is free and is available to be used on PHP applications other than WordPress. Today, there are a number of people using this service. That's where Gravatar adds to the comfort of people because using it you can use the same avatar for different websites without even uploading an image to the website.
We'll now make a simple PHP application which shows you the Gravatar associated with an email. So let's get started without wasting any time!
