NYCPHP Meetup

[Jon Baer]

Well I was not suggesting to fully use the gravatar site itself  
(although you can scale to whatever size you wish for your avatar  
using &size=n), I think they recognize anything > 80px to not be an  
"avatar" ... your question dealt w/ the security of such images + the  
technique w/ the MD5 hash of email address link to an image path was  
more the idea.

There actually is an excellent library if you want to roll your  
own ... http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net.  It includes this hashing  
mechanism already.

- Jon

On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:18 PM, Ben Sgro ((ProjectSkyLine)) wrote:

> Hello Jon,
>
> A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80  
> pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing  
> beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.  
> Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
>
> Not exactly what Im looking for. In fact, this has external  
> dependencies on the gravatar.com site.
>
> Thanks anyways.