which was is best and possible

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kevrelland
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which was is best and possible

Post by kevrelland »

i'm building a gallery that needs to be easy to use ie no repetition of work
i'm very inexperienced at coding and i need someone to tell me if what i plan is possible

when i upload an image file the php then grabs the meta tags (exif, tiff and XMP) and filename and puts it in a table on my database, it would also create a thumbnail for display on the site from a CMYK eps or tiff file.

if not can i build a search that will query the tags on the image files?

i'm not looking for code at the moment as i want to use this project to learn, i just need some direction

cheers
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superdezign
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Post by superdezign »

You shouldn't require that the images have the tags built-in, and rather allow them to be edited. This would help for usability (as not everyone is familiar with the ways to change the meta data in the files) and for times when no data is given.
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Post by kevrelland »

i have 15,000 images to put together and if there is no data entered into keywords it's essential as i don't want to display them just filter by them

sorry should have put this on original post
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Post by ayvah »

Okay, I understand what you're going for with this. And it should all be possible. Grabbing the meta data of an image file is really really simple. The only issue you have to worry about there is that someone might write a file with forged meta data. So there's a bit of security vulnerability there.

Be sure to check out imagemagick for all the image manipulation stuff. Failing that, GD probably works too.
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