I've been dealing with EXIF data in images for a while now. Reading in PHP is available, however editing, or creating EXIF entries doesn't exist.
I am going to work on a set of classes to interphase with libexif a C package at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif/
The package itself, appears to have a license compatible with PHP (MIT license), and I beleive would make a great addition to PHP's graphics library. Currently industry standards use EXIF all over the place, and very few languages (from what I have found) have really good support for EXIF.
Integration to PHP would be ideal. Say you resize an image using GD, currently the EXIF data that previously existed with your image is gone. Now you could rewrite information back into your image. EXIF also always for user defined feilds, which would mean I could attach a description directly to an image saving the use of a database or other datasource.
I am not a C coder, and thus I don't fansy myself a writer of PHP/PECL extensions. I was wondering if support for this kind of action is scheduled? If not, is there a chance it might be? I am willing to offer my own assistance in the matter, but I have zero experience in this realm. Regaurdless of weather a PHP/PECL extension is created, I am planning to write abstraction for using this lib commandline. But ideally for speed, and integration/permissions reasons this would exist as a PHP/PECL extension.
Thoughts? -Greg Militello <?php /** * show email */ print "junk" . "@" . "st"."eti" . "." . "com"; ?>
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