Manual download and Exif

[dkleinbe]

Hi all,

I’ am currently testing EE with manual download only (my host doesn’t support ftp).

Why are the exif infos ignored in this mode ?

I have manage to patch Peka's code to retrieve Exif info from the images located in a specific folder, but it is really an ugly hack with regards to the quality of the rest of the code :(

Could this be a standard feature of EE or is there some specifics reason not to do it ?

PS : EE is a great product, *félicitations* Peka :)

[Pekka]

Exif is not applied in manual input because other features have taken so much time and care to code. It may be relatively simple to add but it's still not on top of my list. And I consider manual input a feature soon to be obsolete in EE.

Some info you may not know:

1. EE 1.5 release version (and RC) will contain inbuilt ftp system which does not need PHP ftp module. So even if your host does not support ftp EE will do it nevertheless.

2. I will add "re-read exif" feature in 1.51 or so, which will be added to powertools section. This will of course need uploaded originals to be stored somewhere in server, or that Imagemagick 'remove profiles' command was not set on for big size photos. Additional ways to read exif later could be possible, like adding "upload exif source" to photo editor which would let you send one photo as temporary source for exif reading.

3. Also, EXIF reading does not need PHP module any more, and the internal code reads XMP. too.

[dkleinbe]

pekka wrote:
Exif is not applied in manual input because other features have taken so much time and care to code. It may be relatively simple to add but it's still not on top of my list. And I consider manual input a feature soon to be obsolete in EE.



Will we still be able to setup the gallery of line (locally) and drop it "as is" in EE. It could be useful in the context of servers with no ImageMagic, no gd and very little timeslice for php no ? (may be a little out of scope of the product... but it's my case ;)


Some info you may not know:

1. EE 1.5 release version (and RC) will contain inbuilt ftp system which does not need PHP ftp module. So even if your host does not support ftp EE will do it nevertheless.



Great ! Because i had also to redefined all ftp_* commands to local i/o calls to have a fully functional version of EE. I will not have to integrated it again :)


2. I will add "re-read exif" feature in 1.51 or so, which will be added to powertools section. This will of course need uploaded originals to be stored somewhere in server, or that Imagemagick 'remove profiles' command was not set on for big size photos.


That fits exactly my need


Additional ways to read exif later could be possible, like adding "upload exif source" to photo editor which would let you send one photo as temporary source for exif reading.

3. Also, EXIF reading does not need PHP module any more, and the internal code reads XMP. too.


Thanks a lot
Denis