Retrieving Image info...

[vgurgov]

Hello,

I need to retrieve certain information from an image, such as the author, copyright information, title, keywords, comments, etc.
Is there a way to do it in PHP (or maybe another language?)

Thanks in advance,
VG

[devinemke]

store it all in a database, like mySQL. you can then use PHP to extract, manipulate and display the info.

[Mordecai]

[man]getimagesize/man

[vgurgov]

You are right devinemke, but I do not have this information in the database yet. So far this
information is in the properties of the image itself. Actually, my job IS to retrieve this
information from inside the image file and then store it into the MySQL database.

So, what I'm looking for is maybe a command-line tool or a function like
getimagesize(thank you Mordecai) that would not only retrieve the dimensions of the image,
but also the other data that is saved along with it(author name, copyright, etc).

Any more ideas guys?

Thanks!
VG

[BuzzLY]

Try [man]exif_read_data[/man]. If the info is in the image, that should get it. You might also try [man]iptcparse[/man], although it's not very well documented in the manual.

[vgurgov]

thanks for your help guys!

[joujou]

I did a script that maybe can help you.
It retrieves informations about image files on the files using AJAX.
It retrieves the file size, heigth, width, date of creation, average colour values...

I think you'll need to modify it, but at least it gives you the idea on how to retrieve informations about images on the fly.

this is the page of the script: www.joujou.org/scripts/AntoAPI/
Hope it's useful...

bye bye