Ok, now that I have my fresh install of Laravel 5.1, I’m going to do more tutorials on this blog. For now, I’m going to start with something extremely simple, adding a Gravatar to your nav bar.

This is super simple thanks to the team at CreativeOrange. You can visit their packagist page for the original instructions, should this tutorial go out of date for any reason.

Step 1.

Grab the package through Composer via the command line:

composer require creativeorange/gravatar ~1.0

Or modify your composer.json to include:

"require": {
    "creativeorange/gravatar": "~1.0"
}

If you modify your composer.json file, you will need to run composer update from the command line to pull in the package.