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Head for the hills

March 07, 2013, 06:20:21 AM
Hi,
Please excuse my noobishness with perl modules etc.
I have a Linux hosted website. Here's what I've done.
FTP'd the uncompressed Image-ExifTool-9.13 folder (and subfolders) to the root of my site.
Created a simple shtml page that contains
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<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/exif.pl"--> in the body.
Created /cgi-bin/exif.pl and chmod 755
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
use lib '/Image-ExifTool-9.13/lib';

use Image::ExifTool;
my $exifTool = new Image::ExifTool;

my $info = $exifTool->ImageInfo('exif.JPG');

foreach (keys %$info) {
    print "$_ => $$info{$_}\n";
}

Where have I gone wrong, and please don't just say everywhere. :-[
Any help will be much appreciated.

Phil Harvey

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March 07, 2013, 07:47:28 AM Last Edit: March 12, 2013, 08:03:14 AM by Phil Harvey
First, see if you can get the CGI script to work without ExifTool.

Then, try one step at a time.  First just try adding your "use" statement to see if that works.  If it doesn't you have a permission problem or can't access the directory for some reason.

Then if this works, your script should work provided that you format the output in HTML.  Something as simple as this would do:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
use lib '/Image-ExifTool-9.13/lib';

use Image::ExifTool;
my $exifTool = new Image::ExifTool;

$exifTool->Options(Escape => 'HTML');

my $info = $exifTool->ImageInfo('exif.JPG');

print "<html><head></head><body><pre>\n";
foreach (keys %$info) {
    print "$_ =&gt; $$info{$_}\n";
}
print "</pre></body></html>\n";

Edit: Added missing semicolon in code.
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

Head for the hills

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March 07, 2013, 09:52:15 AM
Many thanks for your prompt reply Phil. I'm sorted now.

Phil Harvey

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March 07, 2013, 10:24:46 AM
It may help others if you explained what your problem was, and post your working cgi script.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

Head for the hills

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March 12, 2013, 07:00:38 AM
There's not a lot to add really. My problem was nothing to do with exiftool, just a silly path error pointing to the library due to using subdomains.
I tested with the code you posted (just needs a semicolon on the end of one print statement).

Phil Harvey

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March 12, 2013, 07:58:02 AM
Great, thanks.  I added the semicolon.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).
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