Using the EXIF Tool in a website

[rupamgupta]

Hi All,

I cam across this site and the tool very recently and I must thank Phil for such a great job and more so for making it available to all.

I am not a techie so pardon my ignorance. I am building a site (it is being developed by an agency) for photo contest. I would like teh site to have capabilities of reading the EXIF of the photos that are being uploaded. Specially, the original date, camera make, brand and serial number as well as the lens details and serial number, etc.

Is there a way this can be adapted to run on my site? I suppose the site is being built on a joomla + PHP. I could give more details if required (i will have to ask my developers).


Thanks for the help.

Regards
Rupam

[StarGeek]

Exiftool is often already on many servers as a standard tool.  Flicker uses it, for example.  Your developer would (hopefully) know the best way to call it.

But if you're going to be running Jooma, I'm pretty sure that there are extensions for Jooma that can already take care if these details and if not, php already has a function that should be able to pull these details out of the files.

I'm not saying that exiftool shouldn't be a consideration for your website but there might already be tools out there to do what you want.  It would be something to discuss with your developer.