Database rebuild in PhotoPost?

cathcane · January 9th, 2006, 10:42 AM

Hi. I'm currently running a cgi-based image gallery which has around 8000 pics. A problem I'm having is that the database needs to be rebuilt, via the browser, to make keywords active. The more images the longer the rebuild - sometimes up to an hour as there are server timeouts. Is this necessary with Photopost? I suspect not but would welcome confirmation. thanks.

Chuck S · January 9th, 2006, 11:08 AM

You do not need to do anything like this with photopost. All our information is stored via mysql and updates immediately on change.

cathcane · January 9th, 2006, 12:39 PM

Thanks, that's what I was hoping! My last question is about keyword and field data. All the images on my site have this data stored as IPTC info - does PhotoPost read this or will it need to be re-entered. Thanks.

Chuck S · January 9th, 2006, 12:49 PM

Well I don't know about IPTC we do read EXIF info though on photos

cathcane · January 9th, 2006, 02:11 PM

Just so I'm clear. When I transfer to PhotoPost I will need to re-upload my images and re-keyword the images as the keywords will now be stored in the mysql database and not be fixed with the image - correct?
If so, is there a way i can batch keyword a bunch of images in one go? thanks.

Chuck S · January 9th, 2006, 03:20 PM

You will need to upload photos yes and we do support bulkupload if you ftp so many images to a directory you can process them.

We can extract EXIF data from an image as noted. Keywords can be placed at the time of image processing just like titles and descriptions. You can also create extra fields to input data that might be normally shown with photos.

cathcane · January 9th, 2006, 04:16 PM

Sorry to come back on this again but I need to make sure I fully understand how this works before I switch/purchase. Can you give me a simple example of how keywords are added to an image - I don't know what you mean by 'Keywords can be placed at the time of image processing just like titles and descriptions.'
Does the user upload their image and then add the data to the various fields? Thanks again.

Chuck S · January 9th, 2006, 05:19 PM

Hello

A user can upload an image and place title description keywords and any number of extra fields a user defines when they upload an image. If you have jhead on your system we can extract exif information from an image

http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=726

You can try uploading a photo to our gallery here on http://www.photopost.com/photopost

Michael P · January 9th, 2006, 08:17 PM

PhotoPost uses an external application, jhead, to grab IPTC and EXIF information from image files.

cathcane · January 10th, 2006, 02:48 AM

Aah, ok now I understand, that looks great. Will I be able to add fields such as, name, email address, phone number?

Michael P · January 10th, 2006, 07:27 AM

Yes, you can add an unlimited number of additional fields for input - text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.

cathcane · January 10th, 2006, 02:56 PM

That's fantastic, I appreciate your responses. I will be purchasing PP this week.

omidvd · July 13th, 2008, 08:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael P

Yes, you can add an unlimited number of additional fields for input - text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.

how can this be done?

i uploaded a picture which contain IPTC headers:
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however the information is not displayed when i view the exif information.

Chuck S · July 13th, 2008, 08:27 AM

Your photo has the exif camera button to display the exif anyway to make additional fields you would do this under Admin => Edit Categories for any given category you would add a field and then on upload the user would be presented with it to answer.