Gravatar Macro for Laravel

gravatar.php

<?php
// Source: http://forums.laravel.com/viewtopic.php?pid=20704#p20704

// Here's a handy macro for creating an image tag that links to a gravatar image.

//If these files/folders don't exist, create a 'macros' folder in your application folder, and create an 'html.php' file in the macros folder.

// In application/start.php add this to the end of the file:

require path('app').'macros/html.php';
//inside macros/html.php paste the following:

HTML::macro('gravatar', function($email, $size = 128, $alt = '', $attributes = array()){
    $attributes['alt'] = $alt;
    return '<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/'.md5(strtolower(trim($email))).'?s='.$size.'" '.HTML::attributes($attributes).' />';
});

// You can then use it anywhere in your code. Here's an example of how I use it to get the logged in users gravatar image:

{{HTML::gravatar(Auth::user()->email, 32, Auth::user()->firstname, array('class' => 'avatar'))}}

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