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Generate avatar for user by his name, file or url.

Features

• Saving to PNG format
• Generate avatar by username
• Generate avatar from file or url (http only)
• Auto select background color by username
• Contrast color for text
• Font face and size customize
• PNG Textures for background

Dependencies

• PHP 7
• PHP GD

Installation

Install with composer:

composer require zertex/avatar-generator

or add

"zertex/avatar-generator": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Configuration

$options = AvatarOptions::create()
			->setFont('path to ttf font')
			->setWidth(300)
			->setFontSize(200)
			->setTexturesFolder('path to textures folder')
			->setImagesFolder('path to generated images folder')
			->setImagesUrl('url to images folder')
			->setSalt('random salt');

• setFont - Path to TTF font
• setWidth - Width & height avatar image file. Default: 300
• setFontSize - Font size. Default: 200
• setTexturesFolder - Path to textures folder. Used only PNG textures
• setImagesFolder - Path to image folder.
• setImagesUrl - Url for generating complete link to image
• setSalt - Random text for new image file name

Using

Generate avatar image by username

$image_src = Avatar::init('John Smith', $options, [result file name])
			   ->username()
			   ->texture('TEXTURE_NAME')
			   ->text()
			   ->get_file_name();

Generate avatar image from file

$image_src = Avatar::init('John Smith', $options, [result file name])
			   ->file('/path/to/file')
			   ->texture('TEXTURE_NAME')
			   ->text()
			   ->get_file_name();

Generate avatar image from url

$image_src = Avatar::init('John Smith', $options, [result file name])
			   ->file('http://your-site.com/image.jpg')
			   ->texture('TEXTURE_NAME')
			   ->text()
			   ->get_file_name();

You can exclude texture or text from chain for exclude them

Textures

You can use PNG texture with transparancy. Every texture must consist of 2 files (back & white). His names myst be:

TEXTURE_NAME . '-' . COLOR . '.png'

• TEXTURE_NAME - Any words. In texture() method you can use array of TEXTURE_NAME for random
• COLOR - Must be black or white

Screenshot

Yii2 extension

Avater generator extension for Yii2 here: https://github.com/zertex/yii2-avatar-generator

There you can find 2 textures and Play-Bold.ttf font

Examples

https://zertex.ru/yii2-avatar-generator