Generate Avatars using Initials, Bears or Kittens

Avatary

Simple avatar generator
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About The Project

It's just a simple project to generate avatars using names. For the moment it supports only english and arabic names.

Built With

This project is made with the awesome frameworks/packages

• Laravel
• TailwindCSS
• Intervention Images

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Getting Started

This is an example of how you may give instructions on setting up your project locally. To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

Since Avatary is built using Laravel 8, so the prerequisites are the same as the framework

• PHP >= 8.0
• BCMath PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• Fileinfo PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• GD PHP Extension

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/prettifystudio/avatary.git

2. Install Composer packages

   composer install

3. Copy the environment file & edit it accordingly

   cp .env.example .env

4. Generate application key

   php artisan key:generate

5. Linking Storage folder to public

   php artisan storage:link

6. Serve the application

   php artisan serve

Usage

Using the API is simple, all you have to do is hit the Initials API. Without any parameter, the endpoint will generate an image with random background color.

But you can customize it as you need.

Name

If you want to customize the name, you can hit the endpoint with the query param name .

The default value is "John Doe"

GET https://avatary.prettify.studio/api/initials?name=Koussay Fridhi

Background Color

Background colors, are generated randomly, but you can speacify it as follows:

The Background color must be in hexadecimal form, otherwise the system will throw an exception

GET https://avatary.prettify.studio/api/initials?bgcolor=f43f43

Size

The default size of the generated image is 260px, but you can specify a custom size

GET https://avatary.prettify.studio/api/initials?size=75

This will generate a 75*75 px image. Generally you may want to use a smaller size so the request is handled quickly.

Text Color

You may want also to specify the text color, inside the image.

The default value is

#fafafa

The text color must be in hexadecimal form, otherwise the system will throw an exception

GET https://avatary.prettify.studio/api/initials?color=fafafa

Shape

The API will generate 2 shapes, a circle or a square. The default one is the circle, but you can get a square shape

GET https://avatary.prettify.studio/api/initials?shape=square

Full request

GET https://avatary.prettify.studio/api/initials?name=Koussay%20Fridhi&bgcolor=f44336&shape=circle&color=fafafa&size=250

This request will generate the following image

You can use any param you want, for example you want only the name and the size,

GET https://avatary.prettify.studio/api/initials?name=Koussay%20Fridhi&size=125

Testing

This application is using PestPHP for testing. In order to run the test suite

./vendor/bin/pest

Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Your Name - @PrettifyStudio - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/prettifystudio/avatary