PHP and EXIF data extraction |
A couple months ago I asked for recommendations for female-authored bloggers to add to my RSS reading list. The first time out didn’t result in a significant number of bloggers, so I asked again.
This morning I’m going through these recommended blogs. One of the more attractive designs is pictured above from LisaJill at a blog titled distant, early morning. Many of the blogs I read are not graphically pleasing, so it’s nice to pop on over to something that looks nice. Here’s what the author, LisaJill wrote in the comments about her blog:
I’m a female blogger. Mostly about random stuff, though I sometimes cover the subjects you listed. It’s a rather eclectic, unthemed site.
A blog doesn’t have to be themed to catch my interest. One could argue that this blog isn’t themed, though it certainly has a heavy technology slant.
LisaJill’s most recent entry is on PHP with EXIF data to extract the camera and exposure information from the digital camera:
… will only work if PHP has EXIF support compiled in - that excludes most cPanel based hosts.
While the plugin she is referencing is only for PMachine Expression Engine blogs, I did some poking around in the codex first to see if there was a Wordpress equivalent. That didn’t yield any results so I went to Google.
This query led me to Exifixer which the author describes as follows:
I wrote this PHP library to do a better job at reading the EXIF data embeded in images taken from digital cameras. If you have PHP compiled in a certain way, you may already be enjoying some functions that do this to some degree, but the default implementation fails to parse all the embebed tags. My library will read many, many more tags, and it will work without needing to compile PHP with the exif option.
Haven’t tried that out yet, but I bookmarked it. Looks like it supports EXIF data from a large number of cameras.
Somewhat unrelated, but there is a cool WP plugin called WYSIWYG that gets rid of those Quicktags in Wordpress (that I’ve never used anyway) and makes it more like a standard Windows application toolbar.
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Thank you for the kind comments. Just as a note, the plugin I use is for ExpressionEngine (put out by the folks that put out pMachine, but a higher end CMS). Just to avoid confusion.
Exifer is a fantastic class bundle, I looked at it when I was using MT before TweezerMan built an EXIF plugin. But I do happen to know that some WP blogs do have automatic EXIF extraction. If I remember, the Pictoralis fork (I’m not sure if it’s actually a fork.. bit’s been awhile, I’m out of touch with WP) did it. I found that a search on the WP forums came up with a fair bit about exif (Exif Search - including a plugin to use Exifer.
Good luck with it! It’s very exciting to be able to showcase work in such an easy way. =)
Comment by Lisa — June 8, 2005 @ 7:46 pm PST
Hi Lisa - PMachine/Expression Engine, I get them mixed up. I actually contribute to a group blog in Expression Engine show I should know better. I’ll strikethru the piece with your correction, thanks.
Comment by TDavid — June 8, 2005 @ 8:48 pm PST