Edit the Date/Time an item was created in Gallery

Great addition!

From what I can recall in G2 some users wanted to be able to edit the origination date. Some items are scanned and don't have an proper origination date. There was also a issue with items prior to 1970. Would be cool to have that issue fixed by a module as well.

Dave

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It looks like "captured" is the time from the EXIF, "created" is when the item was added to Gallery3, and "updated" is when the item changed, although it seems like the "updated" time isn't always changed (for example, when a new item is added to an album). A module (or modules) to edit all three of these times from the Gallery UI (like G2 had) would be ideal.

I just checked with the version running on my development server. I set the captured date for an item to -12345678, and G3 reported a capture date of Aug. 10, 1969, 7:38pm (which is correct, after my time-zone offset). I was directly manipulating the database to change this, so I don't know if the Gallery code will allow it, but the back-end MySQL and PHP apparently allow for negative values in these date fields.

Well, I'm a little OCD and have managed to fix the problem. Oddly enough, it seems to have been caused by the inline styles you printed into the edit form. I'm using Firefox 3.5, and so I don't know if this problem exists in all browsers and platforms or just mine.

At any rate, here's what I did.

In editcreation_event.php, remove the lines that read:

    // Inject some css to make everything look right.
    print ("<style>\nselect {\ndisplay: inline;\n}\n</style>\n");

Now inside modules/editcreation, create a new folder named "css" and create a new file in it named "editcreation.css".

Inside this new file at modules/editcreation/css/editcreation.css, add the following:

select {
  display: inline;
}

Now create a new file at modules/editcreation/helpers/editcreation_theme.php, and add the following:

<?php defined("SYSPATH") or die("No direct script access.");
class editcreation_theme {
  static function head($theme) {
    $item = $theme->item();
    //only print out styles to users with editing rights who are looking at an item
    if ( $item && access::can("edit", $item) ) {
      $theme->css("editcreation.css");
    }
  }
}

Now I can edit an album or photo and the edit form closes and I see a successful ajax message.

@jayp
Thanks! I've incorporated your changes into a revised version of this module.

@griffinmt
This doesn't touch the exif at all, it just allows you to edit the value Gallery stores in it's database. Editing the exif before uploading is definitely a better idea, but you can't always do that (for example with videos or albums).

I have same daubts about imported dates from G2 as sddroog.

Hi rWatcher,

Thanks. I investigated a bit more, and there seems to be two dates for every item in Gallery3, "captured" and "created". It is mentioned before by others as well earlier in this thread. Your great module allows to edit the created date (the date the item was uploaded to Gallery3) but not the captured date.

For albums, it seems that the g2_import takes the original creation date only. It doesn't set the captured date (can an album have a captured date?)

For items, I think the g2_import takes the captured date and the original creation date, and sets the two dates in G3 accordingly.

I usually make sure the exif date is correct before uploading, but for movies this is not possible. And because there is no way to set the captured date for those items, the sorting will be messed up.

It is possible to extend your module to allow editing the captured date also?

And I would very much appreciate European date format support. I can't get used to m/d/y and am/pm. Europeans prefer d/m/y and a 24 hour clock. Or did I miss a setting somewhere?

@yemble: if you create a fork from github and push these changes up to your fork, I'll pull your changes into the gallery3-contrib repo for everybody to use.
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xmod,
Please start a new new thread with your module. I have started a codex page for it:
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php?title=Gallery3:Modules:editcaptured
Feel free to make corrections & additions I have missed.
One issue I noticed was the form elements (dropdowns) are not horizontal and are not pre-populated with the current value.

Dave
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