Topic awaiting preservation: read, add, edit, remove jpeg meta data (or EXIF) using PHP? (Page 1 of 1)

Hi,

I am well aware as I'm sure you all are that jpeg images can contain meta data, EXIF being a good example. But what is the quickest cleanest way to access this functionality with PHP?

My intended use is to store author and copyright information in jpeg, as well as any other details that may be important.

Thanks guys,

Jon

SCRWD//MULTIMEDIA PORTAL

I guess the cleanest way would be to look up the specification, then use that info accordingly...

the quickest way would be to use google to try to find a jpeg library that already did that...

You could also have a look at PEAR to see if such a library already exist in PHP. I just found Image_IPTC, a package to handle IPTC datas. At worst, you'll have to do your own library

Hope that helps.

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http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.exif.php - from php.net, requires exif to be enabled
http://www.ozhiker.com/electronics/pjmt/index.html - another meta data library, looks good, not just for php5

Ok so I found some stuff out, I'm still not sure what is the best solution tho are the best way to implement it.

There seems to be loads of stuff that can be stored in jpeg meta data (from looking at examples), essentially I would like to only make use of title, location, and copyright, but this is stored in many formats - photoshop has it's own rdf format or something, which is seperate from exif but kinda in it - it's all weird.

Thanks guys.

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