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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: captainbogart on September 18, 2013, 08:40:22 PM

Title: Install on website?
Post by: captainbogart on September 18, 2013, 08:40:22 PM
I want to put exiftool on my website so that I can do miscellaneous things like rotate images, etc from php scripts.  I, um, don't know what to do...  ???  Is it possible to put it into a directory on my iPage server and rotate and update the exif or am I just way off on my thinking?  To be exact what I really want to do is check the exif orientation, rotate to THAT orientation and finally write a "1" into the exif orientation.  But to have it available online would surely lead to me using it for some of my other webpages as well.  I already know how to do a few simple, novice type things with the exiftool running on my computer but seeing all this talk about php and all has got me hoping I can run it online.  Thanks!
-Chris
Title: Re: Install on website?
Post by: Phil Harvey on September 19, 2013, 07:34:15 AM
Hi Chris,

Certainly ExifTool may be called by cgi scripts running on a web server.  Here is one implementation of this for reading metadata (http://regex.info/exif.cgi).

- Phil