Gravatar implementation into user system

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I have been looking arund at implementing Gravatar for all my users profile pictures but I am a little confused about one or two things.

Imagine, like this site, I have a current user who is not registered with gravatar. In order to give them a gravatar, do I have to tell them to register with gravatar separately or is there a API function that will register them if they do not yet exist?

Also I only ever see getting information from gravatar but I do not very often see putting information to their services, like a new avatar. Is there functions for putting data to their servers?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '10 at 12:18

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Normally, you'd use one of the default image options (see http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/). If a gravatar doesn't exist one will be provided based on your settings (until the user actually selects / creates a gravatar). I'd keep the uploading of images on their site, but you could use their xml-rpc api

answered Nov 04 '10 at 12:18

Wrikken

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Ok kool that's cleared that up. I also realised wordpress redirects you to gravatar if you wish to edit your avatar. thanks :) – Sammaye Nov 04 '10 at 12:49
Is there any option you've found to not have to force the users to Gravatar for signing up? Is there an API for that? I wouldn't want the extra step of pushing to their signup site. – Daniel Trimble Mar 11 '16 at 13:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 07 '13 at 15:06

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Put an image tag use the source similar to these

<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/<?php echo md5($_POST['email']);?>

edited Feb 07 '13 at 15:06

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answered Feb 07 '13 at 14:16

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@Rod Even though it is unclear what he is saying I do understand because I have done this myself. You can access the gravatar url via a md5 hash of the email you are looking for. Though yes, the answer needs cleaning up – Sammaye Feb 07 '13 at 14:47
@Sammaye, I have corrected the answer to show the html code that was hidden. Forget my first comment. – Rod Feb 07 '13 at 14:52
@Rod Ah ok kool I see it now :) – Sammaye Feb 07 '13 at 14:59

Gravatar implementation into user system

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