Extension:Libravatar

MediaWiki extensions manual

Libravatar Release status: experimental
Implementation	Tag
Description	Provides a <libravatar email="foo@example.org"/> tag for MediaWiki which displays the avatar image for a given email address.
Author(s)	Christian Weiske (Cweisketalk)
Latest version	0.1.0
MediaWiki	1.19.1+
PHP	5.3
Database changes	No
License	AGPL
Download	mediawiki-libravatar-0.1.0.phar README ChangeLog
Parameters $wgLibravatarSize, $wgLibravatarDefault, $wgLibravatarAlgorithm
Tags <libravatar/>
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Libravatar MediaWiki extension

Provides a <libravatar email="foo@example.org"/> tag for MediaWiki which displays the avatar image for a given email address, using the Libravatar service. It is federated and falls back to Gravatar if no Libravatar is found.

Examples

Simple avatar:

 <libravatar email="foo@example.org"/>

Avatar with special size:

 <libravatar email="foo@example.org" size="32"/>

Image title:

 <libravatar email="foo@example.org" title="Foo's avatar"/>

Verbose notation:

 <libravatar default="monsterid">foo@example.org</libravtar>

Supported attributes

email

Email address to show avatar of. Required.

size

Size in pixels (avatars are quadratic)

default

Default icon type when no avatar has been found. Options: 404, mm, identicon, monsterid, wavatar, retro

algorithm

Email hashing algorithm. md5 or sha256

title

Title attribute value for the image tag

style

Style attribute value for the image tag

Global configuration variables

• $wgLibravatarSize
• $wgLibravatarDefault
• $wgLibravatarAlgorithm

Installation

Phar

Copy the mediawiki-libravatar-0.1.0.phar file into your MediaWiki extensions/ directory and add the following to your LocalSettings.php:

 require_once "$IP/extensions/mediawiki-libravatar-0.1.0.phar";

That's it, it works now. All dependencies are included in the .phar file.

If you get a white page, then you're probably running Suhosin.

Normal installation

1. Run $ pear install Services_Libravatar-alpha
2. Copy this extension's Libravatar.php to $mediawiki/extensions/Libravatar/Libravatar.php

 require_once "$IP/extensions/Libravatar/Libravatar.php";

1. Edit LocalSettings.php:

Dependencies

Requires the Services_Libravatar package from PEAR.