On Saturday, 30 April 2011 at 03:32, Mitch wrote: I was wondering about that. Since I am not actually hosting my ISP would > have to have it loaded (or compiled into their PHP implementation), right? You may be able to use http://php.net/dl to load the extension (you'll need to build it to be compatible with your host and then upload it) but it's highly unlikely they'll have the dl function enabled. Your best bet is to ask them to add it to their environment. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ > On 4/29/2011 9:26 AM, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Friday, 29 April 2011 at 03:33, Mitch wrote: > > I have written a lightweight, easy to use photo album "system" in > > > HTML/PHP/MySQL.In addition to the Photo Album side I have written a > > > series of Admin Utilities to manage it with. One of the administrative > > > utilities uploads photos from my local drive, resizes them to be more > > > efficient on disk space, creates thumbnails and populates the database > > > with as much "default" data as can be deduced. > > > > > > After all of this was written, I decided to see if I could pull EXIF > > > data to supply some of the technical data for the DB. To my surprise, > > > the only EXIF data in the JPEG files was data in the File, Computed and > > > Comments sections. > > > > > > Why don't the gd utilities retain the original EXIF data? Is there any > > > way to do so? I use the following gd utilities to resize and create the > > > new JPEG image files: > > > > > > imagecreatefromjpeg > > > imagesx > > > imagesy > > > imagercreatetruecolor > > > imagecopyresized > > > imagejpeg > > > > This is a known shortcoming of the GD library. You won't have that issue with ImageMagick: http://php.net/book.imagick > > > > -Stuart > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
