Display EXIF Information

[pgowder]

I've checked the box, but it isn't showing up??

Thanks

[Chuck S]

Have you verified that jhead exists and is working?

[SaN-DeeP]

hi omegatron,
I have the same problem any idea ?

Where/how to check for jheads ?

Regards,

[Chuck S]

You need to SSH into your server and type which jhead or contact your provider to find out if jhead is installed

[SaN-DeeP]

I have never used jhead and have no experience with it. please provide a direct link for downloading the installer, and documentation on how to install it.

[SaN-DeeP]

I am using Red Hat 9.0 Operating System

[Chuck S]

Jhead can be found on there homepage and should have installation instructions with it

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

[pgowder]

I'm on a Windows server?? Do I need jhead?

I'm running Coopermine on another site on the same server and it extracts the information??

[Chuck S]

You need jhead to extract the info

[pgowder]

Sure would be nice if you guys would be a little less dependent on 3rd party apps!

Anyone know how to get it to work on Windows?

[Chuck S]

Am I missing someting here?

Every Gallery application out there Coppermine Albinator 4Images Gallery etc are dependent on having Imagemagick or GD

This is just a fact

I posted the link above to jhead and his page has installation instructions

Basically your gonna have to have permissions for IWAM and IUSER accounts to have full access to your gallery data and uploads directories just like that which is required for running Imagemagick on windows

[Michael P]

You should be aware that there is a security hole in PHP with the extract exif information call which makes anyone using it vunerable to a server attack.

By using a third-party application we ensure that the information can be obtained from a greater variety of sources (and includes IPTC information); features not available with the unsecure internal call.

[SaN-DeeP]

I am using PHP 4.3.10 what will you recommend ?
Disable Exif or leave it enabled ?

Regards,

[mlucek]

Originally Posted by pgowder

I'm on a Windows server?? Do I need jhead?

I'm running Coopermine on another site on the same server and it extracts the information??

Coppermine uses on open-source software module to extract the EXIF data from the picture (jpg) files. Thus is not dependant on using the JHEAD program.

[Chuck S]

Whether you use an open source module or jhead which itself is another open source module they are external modules to do exif.

[mlucek]

Originally Posted by omegatron

Whether you use an open source module or jhead which itself is another open source module they are external modules to do exif.

Coppermine actually includes a PHP-based open source EXIF reader module in the Coppermine product so there is no external module required.

I asked Michael about using that open source reader (or similar) as you guys use an open source ZIP module within PP. He said it'd require some kind of licensing agreement to do that like he has with that ZIP library. Food for thought anyway, would certainly lessen the install configuration required for PP.

[pengrus]

Is there a difference in using the linux executable and the source file?

[Chuck S]

Well there are tons of flavors for linux. I always suggest source and compiling yourself for the known result of it being valid. Sometimes binaries compiled on systems for generic results can not work on all systems.

[pengrus]

Is there a difference in using the linux executable and the source file?

[Michael P]

I use RedHat and almost always find a suitable RPM to install without having to compile anything.