EXIF UserComment plugin

[JohanLundin]

Just wrote up a quick and dirty plugin to extract the EXIF UserComment field from JPG pictures and display it in Coppermine as title/caption.

A few related URLs:

Description and download of plugin:
http://www.bluenine.se/products/photocomment/coppermineplugin.html

An EXIF UserComment editor:
http://www.bluenine.se/products/photocomment/

The plugin in action:
http://www.tacticaldiving.com/cpg/index.php

Any possibility to change the require to require_once in exif_php.inc.php for next release?
Would simplify the installation of this plug-in and won't break anything else.

[Joachim Müller]

Thanks for your contribution. Here's the instructions from your page and the plugin zip file (in case your server goes down):

PhotoComment Coppermine plugin
- Displays your comment as image description in Coppermine

PhotoComment is by default configured to read and save comments for JPG pictures using the EXIF UserComment field. When publishing your photos online you may want to display these comments together with the pictures.

Coppermine is one of the better free open source photo album software packages available. The reason Coppermine was chosen to work with PhotoComment was:

    * Coppermine works reasonable well in PHP SafeMode which most PHP ISP offers
    * Coppermine is the most advanced photo album that still satisfies the previous condition
    * Coppermine has a plugin architecture making modifications easy

To install the PhotoComment Coppermine plugin follow these steps:

   1. Install Coppermine
   2. Download the plugin
   3. Unzip the plugin file and upload to server to create the following file structure
      <coppermine_root>/plugins/PhotoComment
      containing the files codebase.php and configuration.php
   4. Edit the file <coppermine_root>/include/exif_php.inc.php and change the line
      require("include/exif.php");
      to
      require_once("include/exif.php");
   5. Install the plugin from the Coppermine admin interface

 

[Mats]

For Coppermine 1.48: Is this plug-in still needed, or is it built-in?

[Paver]

@Mats: Coppermine 1.4.8, as the announcement thread says, has no new features.  It only contains bug fixes and the important security fix and stability fix mentioned.

New features will be considered for the next major release which is 1.5.

[Mats]

Yeah, just noticed. Thanks for the reply

Still got one problem with this though, and that is that comments with accented characters get scrambled.

Example:

Code:

Utsikt fr宠v岠hotellterass

Should be:

Code:

Utsikt från vår hotellterass

Running CPG 1.48 (with Unicode UTF-8) on Win2003 srv SP1, PHP 5.14 in ISAPI mode, MySQL 5.0.21 (Def. char set: latin1). This is a general problem though. Have the same in other plug-ins which I've translated into Swedish.

I haven't touched the CPG *.php files, and I've also tried updating php.ini's default_charset to:

Code:

default_charset = "UTF-8"

Strange thing is that CPG is fine, but after having added text to the EXIF UserComment field (done on a Swedish WinXP Pro SP2) and uploaded the two test images, they showed up like this:
(http://www.home.no/masken/pics/cpg_error_usercomment_plug-in.JPG)

Anyone with a clue?

[Mats]

The page header (view > source) also shows UTF-8:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

[Mats]

Noone?

[Joachim Müller]

http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/faq.htm#lamesupport

[Mats]

uhm...? I didn't ask for your reply specifically. I bounced the message, that's all. Since this is a very active forum, there's a risk there will be no reply if it drops to te second page - and I did that after a whole day. Nothing to fuzz about if you ask me...

[Nibbler]

> maybe nobody knows the answer to your problem

Mods come as-is, you can't demand support for them.