Any plans to retire Exifer 1.6?
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Posted: Thu, 2009-06-25 15:02
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As it seems Exifer 1.6 is used currently (http://www.jakeo.com/software/exif/) Do you think there is still need for the library or regular exif_read_data() could be used? exif_read_data() |
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Development has continued with the Exifer library by the guys over at zenphoto.org. We have have given them patches to fix bugs with the library so we are collaborating on it.
Here is an example of some fixes:
Fixes for #1117, #1118. Thanks to bharat and the Gallery team
Dave
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Yes, I have noticed that 1.6 is higher then original 1.5.
What wories me is that none of the links to the source from the site mentioned are operational at the moment.
Aside from the note that some PHP installations do not support Exif by default, which is not a case for me, is there bigger reasons why default PHP functionality is not enough to work with EXIF data?
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I suspect that the links are a administrative issue with the folks at zenphoto. Try:
http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/browser/trunk/zp-core/exif
I bet that exifer has better recent support than PHP native support and can be added at runtime and is not required during php installation.
Got a better portable library in mind?
Dave
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Thanks, will keep for reference
Depend on how much was done to the code from originals - Since Feb 18, 2005 Exifixer 1.5 accordingly to the http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/log/trunk/zp-core/exif/exif.php?rev=4023 ~15 changes. Looks very stable.
So it is about runtime support then.
I do not know if it is better: http://pel.sourceforge.net/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/pel/ , but it has R/W access to data if necesary, class based, PHP 5 but may have the same problem with future maintenance.
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probably right, since the last update was; December 19, 2006.
Dave
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What we have now works, so I'm not inclined to do a lot of work to replace it. If you've got something you know is better let me know, but unless somebody steps up to write the code, replacing what we have now is a low priority.
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No problem