Re: [Ids-devel] Use / search EXIF comments and titles?

[Jeff M. <jef...@vi...>]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 21:45, Chris Shaffer wrote:
> How hard would it be to modify IDS to use EXIF
> comments and titles in photo displays?  A follow-up
> question - is it possible to have the IDS search
> function search EXIF comments and titles?  I'd rather
> save photo data in the EXIF fields than in an external
> database or text files.
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I don't think this would be all that hard. I wish I could point you to
where this could be done, but at the moment I don't know.

> I'm not a perl programmer, though I've done a fair bit
> of PHP and I think I could make a stab at modifying
> the photo pages to use EXIF data on the displays.  If
> I did that, would you include it in the source so
> others could take advantage of it?  Note that I
> definitely am not skilled enough to modify the search
> function to use EXIF.

A patch would be welcomed.

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