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Bcaps
28th of November 2003 (Fri), 21:51
My webhost doesn't have the EXIF function enabled. I emailed them about it and got this in reply:

EXIF is not available on this server. Since this is a shared server and needs to remain as stable as possible at all times we will not rebuild PHP to enable it for you. We do provide ImageMagick on this server, however. It should be able to handle everything you would need EXIF for.

Is this true? I thought they provided two seperate functions.
Evanrich
29th of November 2003 (Sat), 01:16
thats a load of BS. exif and imagemagick are 2 different programs. imagemagick hadles resizing, sharpening, watermarking...etc. exif reads data from the photo, such as lens, camera make and model, focal range, focus point, exposure compensation....etc. your ISP is wrong.
Bcaps
29th of November 2003 (Sat), 03:55
Yeah, that's what I figured. Too bad, my webhost is excellent in every other regard.

If I go ahead and upload my catalogue with EXIF not installed and they then add it at a later time would all of the previously uploaded photos have the EXIF data displayed at that time or would I need to reupload everything?
Pekka
29th of November 2003 (Sat), 08:52
Bcaps wrote:
Yeah, that's what I figured. Too bad, my webhost is excellent in every other regard.

If I go ahead and upload my catalogue with EXIF not installed and they then add it at a later time would all of the previously uploaded photos have the EXIF data displayed at that time or would I need to reupload everything?

EE 1.5 release version will have an alternate inbuilt EXIF reader code for those who do not have PHP's EXIF in their servers. It's not yet as complete as PHP EXIF reader but it will get the basic data out. I'll code a more complete version later.

Currently EXIF reading is done only on upload, but replacing/rereading EXIF is on my todo list. This feature will most likely work so that it'll read filenames from a certain folder (e.g. UPLOAD) and then apply EXIF to those same filenames found in database. So after upload if could be wise to copy those files from /UPLOAD to some storage folder to wait for later EXIF reading.

You can also always edit all that data in photo editor.