Re: Accessing tags with PHP

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 24/06/06, Ruben Vermeersch <ruben lambda1 be> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 20:39 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I have set up f-spot to store the tags in the picture files
> > themselves. How can I access these tags with PHP? I do know how to
> > access IPTC tags with PHP but not the tags that f-spot uses. A simple
> > working code example would be very, very much appreciated.
> >
> > Also, are the tags UTF-8? If not, what charset are they?
> >
> > This is the code that I use to access IPTC:
> > <?php
> > $size = GetImageSize ("/path/to/pic.jpg", &$info);
> > $iptc = iptcparse($info["APP13"]);
> >
> > print "Keywords: ".$iptc["2#025"][0]."<br />";
> > print "People: ".$iptc["2#118"][0]."<br />";
> > print "Place: ".$iptc["2#027"][0]."<br />";
> > print "Event: ".$iptc["2#105"][0]."<br />";
> > print "Date: ".$iptc["2#055"][0]."<br />";
> > print "Time: ".$iptc["2#060"][0]."<br />";
> > ?>
> >
> > Note that the IPTC tags used here are not to standard, they are as per
> > the excellent windows software BrilliantPhoto.
>
> As far as I know, f-spot stores tags in XMP metadata, so you'll have to
> extract it from XMP, not IPTC (but I could be wrong).
>
> Kind regards,
>    Ruben Vermeersch

Thanks, that was clear to me. I have since found this:
http://www.ozhiker.com/electronics/pjmt/library/list_contents.php4?show_fn=XMP.php

But I have yet to put together working code. I'll play with ti a bit
this week, but if anybody has a wheel that I don't need to reinvent,
I'd appreciate seeing it. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen
http://gmail-com.com