README

Create material deisgn avatars for users just like Google Messager.

It may not be unique but looks better than Identicon or Gravatar.

Online Demo

Language Support

Screenshot

Carbon Forum

Android Client for Carbon Forum

Requirements

• The PHP GD library.

Initialize

<?php
require(dirname(__FILE__) . "/src/MaterialDesign.Avatars.class.php");
/*
'X'         : The character that you want to fill to the avatar.
512 (pixel) : The size of the avatar.
*/
$Avatar = new MDAvtars('X', 512);
?>

Usage

Show you avatar in the browser

<?php
$Avatar->Output2Browser();
?>

<?
//You can resize the ouput size again here.
$OutputSize = 256;
$Avatar->Output2Browser($OutputSize);
?>

Save avatar to a file

<?php
$Avatar->Save('./avatars/Avatar.png');
//You can resize the size you want to save again here.
$Avatar->Save('./avatars/Avatar256.png', 256);
$Avatar->Save('./avatars/Avatar128.png', 128);
$Avatar->Save('./avatars/Avatar64.png', 64);
?>

Free memory

<?php
$Avatar->Free();
?>

Notice

If you do not need Chinese support, you can delete src/fonts/SourceHanSansCN-Normal.ttf.

When you input a Chinese character, it will automatically extract the first letter of the pinyin of the Chinese character instead of the original input if you deleted src/fonts/SourceHanSansCN-Normal.ttf.

$Avatar = new MDAvtars('林', 512);//The pinyin of "林" is "Lin".

This will be the same as that below if you deleted src/fonts/SourceHanSansCN-Normal.ttf.

$Avatar = new MDAvtars('L', 512);//The first letter of that pinyin is "Lin".

Fonts

Source Code Pro

Source Han Sans

License

Copyright 2015 Canbin Lin (lincanbin@hotmail.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.