EE: Exif plugin

pi.exif.php: an Expression Engine plugin to read the EXIF meta data from jpegs.

Note: development for this plugin has been discontinued.

June 8th 2005 | Add-Ons, ExpressionEngine | 10 comments

Comments

  1. 1 Morpurgo.nl June 9th 2005, 00:25

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  2. 2 Thomas June 13th 2005, 07:48

    Thanks a lot for this plugin. Is it possible to read also the IPTC data from jpegs? Archiving the pictures most photographers put the description, keywords and other relevant into IPTC, which is requested by professional stock photo and image galleries.
    But let’s wait for the first beta of EE 1.3, maybe this feature is already integrated in the gallery.

  3. 3 Low June 13th 2005, 09:49

    Current version is 1.01. That takes care of a small bug.
    Maybe I’ll look into that IPTC thing after EE 1.3 is released… :-)

  4. 4 Thomas November 13th 2005, 20:44

    Hello Lodewijk,
    any news about integrating also the IPTC tags in your plugin? If I can contribute something to create this plugin, please let me know.

  5. 5 Low November 14th 2005, 10:10

    Thomas, I don’t think I’ll be getting round to it. Feel free to mess around with the code yourself, though.

  6. 6 Laurent Saint Jean July 5th 2007, 17:02

    Hi Lodewijk

    Your plugin looks just fine. Going to install it. Does it extend to IPTC ? is the idea behind it to extract headline, caption and keywords ? so, potentially, one could batch import images, and the ee gallery would display title+summary+tags ?

    Many thanks for any tips.

    laurentsj on eeforum.

  7. 7 Laurent Saint Jean July 5th 2007, 17:08

    Sorry, i forgot to ask:

    so far, when uploading a jpeg to the ee photo-gallery, the metadata remains on the jpet IF it doesn’t get resized.

    Does your plugin solve the metadata loss when resizing ?

    Thanks.

    L.

  8. 8 Low July 5th 2007, 23:17

    Laurent, the plugin uses php exif functions to read the data from the images. There are no functions that I know of that can read IPTC data. (I must add: I haven’t looked into this in a long time, though. But at the time that I made this plugin, no such functions were available, I believe…)

    About the resizing: this plugin doesn’t resize at all, it just reads data from jpegs, so no, that problem is not solved. If you want to retain that data for your thumbnails, I can only advise you to use proper imaging software instead of a web server… :)

  9. 9 Paul September 19th 2007, 17:11

    Very handy your plugin. Almost convinces me to use EE gallery, if only I could somehow get iptc, search and better batch upload methods (iphoto, picasa, xp publish…).

    I don’t know anything about php, but I found this article.

    Keep up the good work.

  10. 10 Jack Brighton January 19th 2009, 00:01

    I realize development of this plugin has been discontinued but let me say:

    1) I love it, and I’m using it on my gallery.
    2) If there’s a similar way to extract metadata from audio and video files, it would be incredibly useful for using EE to generate podcasts, Dublin Core records, and PBCore records as well.

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