Codeigniter Avatars.io Helper

A Codeigniter helper for the http://avatars.io service.

Installation

Drop the avatars-io_helper.php file into application/helpers and load or autoload in the usual manner.

Basic Usage

Echo a plain URL of the avatar.

avatar_url('twitter', 'willpillar');
avatar_url('facebook', 'willpillar');
avatar_url('gravatar', '[email protected]');

Different Sizes

avatar_url('twitter', 'willpillar', 'large');
avatar_url('facebook', 'willpillar', 'medium');

Return the URL rather than echo

$url = avatar_url('twitter', 'willpillar', 'small', false);

Echo an img tag

avatar_url('twitter', 'willpillar', 'medium', true, true);

Find out more: http://avatars.io