Gallery EXIF - Tags in extension?

ok, i checked User Guide. and everything is clear. i need to write a plugin 😊

Have you considered the Tag module from solspace.com? The current version doesn’t support the Gallery, but Tag 2 (currently in beta) does.

Yes. An EXIF extension for Tag would be awesome.

Tag looks good, but what i need is on the one hand plain and on the other… specific - exif in offical gallery. Extension which adds support of exif in gallery is mostly finished (one or two more features, lang files). I saw that there is an exif plugin but i was always paranoid of code optimalization, and i couldn’t stand constant exif reading from jpeg (not to mention lost exif data - result of image processing in GD/GD2) that’s why i decided to write extension which stores exif data in DB.

screenshot + little extra history 😉 http://gbt.kuzniki.net/exifextension.html

finished. (only code clean-up remaining)

few additions to exif extension (like “Enable exif” option, which through js shows/hides exif value table) and Gallery EXIF plugin, example:

{exp:gallery_exif}
{if exifavailable == "yes"}
Exif data available: {exifavailable}

Camera producer: {if make == "Canon"}Canon is the best!{if:else}not canon...{/if}

Camera model: {model}

Flash:{if flash == "yes"}fired ({flashdetails}){if:else}not fired{/if}

Exposuremode: {if exposuremode == "Tv-priority"}{exposuremode}{if:else}not Tv-priority (to be exact: {exposuremode}){/if}

ISO speed: {isospeed}

{if:else}
Exif data not available
{/if}
{/exp:gallery_exif}

(within exp:gallery:entries)

would produce:

Exif data available: yes
Camera producer: Canon is the best!
Camera model: Canon EOS 10D
Flash:not fired
Exposuremode: not Tv-priority (to be exact: Program)
ISO speed: 1600

how should i call my “Gallery EXIF”? it is extension+plugin, so… expansion? 😊

No, expansion is something special to EE. Combo Pack or some such?

I like “combo”. It’s not the first one, either.

anyone would like to test Gallery EXIF? extension and plugin still require code optimalization and clean-up. but should work.

one more thing to do is language file. (it will introduce one problem, because now in plugin you can use conditionals like this: {if flashdetails == “Red eye”) but in different language it wouldn’t be “Red eye”. Maybe i’ll add paremeter in {exp:gallery exif}, for example english_conditionals=”yes”. Setting it to yes would use english in IF statements but translated strings in {flashdetails}.

OH! and one more - important - thing. delete_entry function in mcp.gallery.php does not have hooks. So extension can not remove exif data record from DB when related gallery entry is removed. There are two solutions for this: hook in delete_entry in next EE version or manual triggered “check & delete unused records” through Gallery EXIF extension settings…

Hi gabrys,

Would love to get a look at this extension and plugin if at all possible. All sounds really good.

Thanks.

Mark

Mark, check your PM

anyone would like to test Gallery EXIF? extension and plugin still require code optimalization and clean-up. but should work.

I would like to check it out as well to see how it compares to the other EXIF plugin.

I would still like to see this if you have it around.

Thanks