Enable Gravatar/Avatar at Your Website – Gravatar Image PHP Script

You might have already created an account at gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars) and enjoying your display picture or avatar at forums and blogs when you just post your comment with your email and there you are — it displays your avatar along with your comment. If you are a developer and you create websites – PHP websites – and wondering how you can enable gravatars / avatars in your next project then here is very easy to use working solution – PHP script to enable gravatar at your PHP website / blog / forum / project.

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Allow htaccess and Mod Rewrite in Wamp

You must enable mod_rewrite before you can use it. If you want to enable it in httpd.conf, then use

Options FollowSymLinks Fileinfo
or
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Fileinfo

If you wish to enable mod_rewrite at the .htaccess level (i.e. only in certain (sub)directories within each vHost and not for all (sub)directories of each vHost), then you must set allowOverride Options (at a minimum) in httpd.conf, and place one of

Options +FollowSymLinks
or
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

in the .htaccess file(s) to enable mod_rewrite.

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