I just found the filedir Extra, which allows me to load files from a directory - which means I can create a really simple gallery by simply ftp'ing images into a folder - which is AMAZING!
But...
I want a way of adding a description to each image.
I have the file name, which serves as a title - but I was hoping to bring in the EXIF/META data from the image, as this comtains tags, and a description - does anyone know of a way to pull this sort of data?
Due to the way the plugin works, there are no individual resources for each image, so I can't just add a TV
Any ideas?
Andy
I'm not aware of any easy way to do this. I'm building a site with the same requirements. My solution was to write a snippet that fires every time a file is uploaded. In the snippet, I use exiftool to extract all the metadata from the image and save it into custom DB tables. I then query these tables when displaying an image on the front end.
This works really well but it was a lot of work setting it up. If you discover a better way, I'd love to know.
There is this PHP function:
exif_read_data(), but it would be very inefficient to read the data every time you need it. gissirob's solution is much better.
Depending on how many images you have, you could create a chunk named after the image name that contains the data you want to display.
