Laravel socialite facebook avatar - php

Question

Im using Laravel 5.2 with Socialite. I am able to pull out the details of the user but the problem is that the avatar is not being displayed properly if I inject it on its src.
Socialite returns an object wherein I could use it as $facebookDetails->getAvatar() in which returns a value of like this https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/123456789/picture?type=normal
If I echo this value in the image src, it would look like this.
<img src="https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/123456789/picture?type=normal" />
It seems that this is not the actual URL of the image since when I enter this on the browser, it redirects me to the "actual" image and displays the image.
How could I display the image on the img tag to display the actual image?

Answer 1

Simply fetch the data using file_get_contents function and process the retrieved data.
In Controller
use File;
$fileContents = file_get_contents($user->getAvatar());
File::put(public_path() . '/uploads/profile/' . $user->getId() . ".jpg", $fileContents);
//To show picture
$picture = public_path('uploads/profile/' . $user->getId() . ".jpg");

Answer 2

i'm using following code:
/**
* In order to save the user's avatar
* REMEMBER TO ADD "use File; use Illuminate\Support\Carbon; use DB;" TO TOP!
* #param $avatar Socialite user's avatar ($user->getAvatar())
* #param $userId User's id database
*/
public function saveImageAvatar($avatar, $userId)
{
$fileContents = file_get_contents($avatar);
$path = public_path() . '/users/images/' . $userId . "_avatar.jpg";
File::put($path, $fileContents);
DB::table('Images')->insert(
['path' => $path,
'nome' => 'avatar',
'users_id' => $userId,
'created_at' => Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
'updated_at' => Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s')]);
}