Php Initial Avatar Generator Laravel Package

What's Changed

• docs:add webpage usage example to documentation by @IamMutevu in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/65
• Add Latin / Turkish support by @LasseRafn in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/66
• IE11 support by adding viewBox by @LasseRafn in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/67
• Ignore /tests/ directory to smaller package downloads by @charescape in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/68

New Contributors

• @IamMutevu made their first contribution in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/65
• @charescape made their first contribution in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/68

Full Changelog: https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/compare/4.4...4.5

What's Changed

• Fix: Compile Error: Cannot use lexical variable $font as a parameter name in InitialAvatar.php by @tomStory9 in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/64
• More PHP versions by @LasseRafn in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/62

New Contributors

• @tomStory9 made their first contribution in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/64

Full Changelog: https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/compare/4.3...4.4

What's Changed

• Fix dynamic property in InitialAvatar (PHP 8.2 deprecation) by @LeSuisse in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/59
• CI setup by @LasseRafn in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/61
• Generate a pseudorandom color based on the user's name by @yakatz in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/50

New Contributors

• @LeSuisse made their first contribution in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/59
• @yakatz made their first contribution in https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/pull/50

Full Changelog: https://github.com/LasseRafn/php-initial-avatar-generator/compare/4.2.1...4.3

Cleaned up the base and tests. Added support for switching driver from GD to Imagick, and back.

Removed caching method entirely.

This is considered a minor BC because of parameter renaming.

fixed 3.0.0 bug.

• private => protected visibility
• FontAwesome v5 support
• Removed cache

Can now detect language/script and apply a font that supports that script/language.

Supported:

• Arabic
• Armenian
• Bengali
• Georgian
• Hebrew
• Mongolian
• Thai
• Tibetan

More will come, when more supporting fonts are found.

Will now NOT default to __DIR__ . $fontFile but instead use it as a fallback.

This also means you can specify in an integer for GD Internal fonts or a complete path. Current implementations should still work, as it will simply fallback to the old implementation if no font is found.

I found a way to solve the ugly circle when using rounded(). Now, by using smooth() as well, it will generate a avatar at 5x size (without text) and resize back after the circle has been created. Example below:

Before:

After:

As you can see, the text is unchanged but the circle is far smoother. Use this and supply a avatar double the size of the img tag, and you will get some crisp avatars. 👍

Double size of img tag:

Smooth + double size of img tag:

After seeing https://github.com/sybri/php56-initial-avatar-generator, I decided to add php 5.6 support. Thanks!

It's now possible to use Japanese letters, with a different font.

<?php

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

$avatar = new LasseRafn\InitialAvatarGenerator\InitialAvatar();

echo $avatar->font('/fonts/NotoSans-Medium.otf')
            ->generate('こんにちは')
            ->stream('data-url');

Can now generate rounded images, however you should default to using border-radius using CSS instead.

I've fixed some stuff, added some docblocks, written more tests and setup monitoring and more.

Aaaaand we're up! 🎉

Font sizes are a percentage of the image size. Example: 0.5 = 50% of image size.

Lets say you want to have single letter initials, or maybe even three letters? Well thats possible!

$avatar->name('Michael Burbon Hansen')->length(3)->generate(); // MBH