Introduction

Pure PHP class to read, write and transfer EXIF information that most of the digital camera produces.

This class is based on jhead (in C) by Matthias Wandel

Features:
- Read Exif Information
- Extract and display emdedded thumbnails
- Add Comments to files.
- Transfering EXIF information from one file to another.

On Freshmeat

On PHPClasses.org

Tested with:

        - Sony
            - Cybershot (Sony)
            - DSC-D700
            - PowerShotA5
	    - Sony P71
        - SANYO Electric Co.,Ltd
            - SR6
            - SX113
        - OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD
            - C960Z, D460Z
	    - C3000Z
        - Canon
            - PowerShot A40 (Canon)
            - Canon DIGITAL IXUS
	    - Canon 300D
        - RICOH
            - Caplio RR30
            - RDC-5300
        - NIKON
            - D100 (NIKON CORPORATION)
            - E5700 (NIKON)
            - E950
	    - D2H
        - CASIO QV-8000SX
        - KODAK
            - DC290 Zoom Digital Camera (V01.00) [Eastman Kodak Company]
            - DC210 Zoom (V05.00) [Eastman Kodak Company]
            - KODAK DC240 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
        - FujiFilm
            DX10
            FinePix40i
            MX-1700ZOOM

Sites Using this class:

• http://gallery.qmel.com/
• http://sodinger.atw.hu
• http://gye.atw.hu
• http://locations.org/events/
• https://bindaas.vsharma.net/pics/

Products Using this class

• Coppermine Photo Gallery - Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP
• My Pictures - 'My Pictures' is another PHP based photo gallery software. It uses ImageMagicks convert to create thumbnails, PHPs EXIF extension to read EXIF data stored by digital cameras and wrjpgcom to save comments directly to JPEG files.

Read Documentation at: http://www.vinayras.com/projects/phpexifrw/phpExifDocs/

Changes History

30 May 2005 Version 1.1
 - Better code. Cleaner several un-wanted code.
 - Added several additional tags that show GPS information.
 - Fixed Shutter Speed value calculation
 - Fixed Aperture value calculation
 - Fixed Special characters in Make & Model
 - Support for following Cameras added:
 	- OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD -> C3000Z
	- NIKON D2H
	- Canon 300D

2-February-2004 Version 1.0
 - Improved reading performance upto 200 times.
 - Seperated classes to read and write exif information
 - Added more than 50 additional tags support
 - Tested with 9 different Camera and 20 different camera model photos.
 - cleaned up code for better readability and enhanced performance.

20-September-2003 Version 0.6
  Added support for 'Artist' and 'Copyright' tags
  Original datetime of image is now showing up
  Removed all warning and some Code clean-up

2-august-2003 Version 0.5
 - Added Support for RICOH camera Images
 - Fixed a minor bug, image dimension not showing up with several camera images.
 - Showing JPEG Image comment

4-June-2003 Version 0.4
 - Added caching system for thumbnail storage.

21-Apr-2003 Version 0.3
 - Fixed several bugs that originated with Nikon and Canon Cameras

24-Mar-2003 Version 0.2
 - Added file 'showThumbnail.php' to show thumbnail
   of the JPEG file extracted from EXIF information

20-Mar-2003   Version 0.1
 - initial release

See history of CHANGES.

Download phpExifRW_1_1.tar.gz(21 Kb) file here.
Download phpExifRW_1_0.tar.gz(19 Kb) file here.
Download phpExifRW_0_4.tar.gz(26 Kb) file here.
Download phpExifRW_0_3.tar.gz(26 Kb) file here.
Download phpExifRW_0_2.tar.gz(26 Kb) file here.
Download phpExifRW_0_1.tar.gz(26 Kb) file here.

Licence & Copyright

phpExifRW is released under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (LGPL) a copy of which is included in the zip file.

System Requirements

The Minimum Requirements are...

• PHP ver > 4

Installation

See Readme file

Credits

Vinay Kumar <vinay@vinayras.com>

Contribute

Please download & test the application. Report bugs, enhance it.
email us your experiences at vinay@vinayras.com.