< ?php
/**
Template Page for the single pic
 
Follow variables are useable :
 
	$image : Contain all about the image
	$meta  : Contain the raw Meta data from the image
	$exif  : Contain the clean up Exif data
	$iptc  : Contain the clean up IPTC data
	$xmp   : Contain the clean up XMP data 
 
 You can check the content when you insert the tag 
 If you would like to show the timestamp of the image ,you can use < ?php echo $exif['created_timestamp'] ?>
**/
?>
< ?php if (!defined ('ABSPATH')) die ('No direct access allowed'); ?>< ?php if (!empty ($image)) : ?>
 
<a title="&lt; ?php echo $image-&gt;linktitle ?&gt;
 &lt; ?php echo $exif['camera'] ?&gt;,
 &lt; ?php echo $exif['aperture'] ?&gt; &amp; &lt; ?php echo $exif['shutter_speed'] ?&gt;,
 &lt; ?php echo $exif['focal_length'] ?&gt;,
 ISO &lt; ?php echo $exif['iso'] ?&gt;,
 &lt; ?php echo $exif['created_timestamp'] ?&gt;
 &lt; ?php echo $exif['flash'] ?&gt; " href="&lt;?php echo $image-&gt;imageURL ?&gt;">&lt; ?php echo $image-&gt;thumbcode ?&gt; &gt;
	<img class="&lt;?php echo $image-/&gt;classname ?&gt;" title="&lt; ?php echo $image-&gt;alttext ?&gt;" src="&lt; ?php echo $image-&gt;thumbnailURL ?&gt;" alt="&lt; ?php echo $image-&gt;alttext ?&gt;" />
</a>
&lt; ?php if (!empty ($image-&gt;caption)) : ?&gt;<span>&lt; ?php echo $image-&gt;caption ?&gt;</span>&lt; ?php endif; ?&gt;
 
&lt; ?php endif; ?&gt;

8 Responses to “Nextgen gallery — exif data in lightbox effect”

1. Agung says:

   March 9, 2009 at 1:38 am  Agung(Quote)

   Hi, this is a great script!
   but I found some­thing wrong, on line 26. Its writen “$image-/>classname” it should “$image->classname” (with­out the “/”)

   and I want to aks, how do you put exif data in view­ing photo (lightbox)?

   regards

   Reply
2. davejp says:

   April 9, 2009 at 12:58 pm  davejp(Quote)

   Thanks for post­ing this. It helped me fig­ure out how to solve my exif problem.

   I wanted to do this in my nextgen gallery as well. I decided I wanted the exif to show in lightbox/floatbox when a viewer clicks a thumb, so I updated functions.php to pop­u­late the descrip­tion field with exif. sample:

   http://​dave​.jp/​n​g​g​a​l​l​e​r​y​/​p​a​g​e​-​1​2​2​4​/​a​l​b​u​m​-​3​/​g​a​l​l​e​r​y-7

   It now auto­mat­i­cally pop­u­lates new pho­tos descrip­tions and I just had to select “Import Meta data” for selected thumbs in the nextgen gallery admin panel to get the descrip­tions updated. It is sim­ple this way. I also added tags to descrip­tion and put more info into alt= for SEO.

   in admin/functions.php go to
   foreach($imagesIds as $pic_id) {
   $pic­ture = nggdb::find_image($pic_id);
   if (!$picture->error) {

   $meta = nggAdmin::get_MetaData($picture->imagePath);

   I changed mine to look like this:

   foreach($imagesIds as $pic_id) {
   $pic­ture = nggdb::find_image($pic_id);
   if (!$picture->error) {

   $meta = nggAdmin::get_MetaData($picture->imagePath);

   // get the title
   if (!$alt­text = $meta[’title’])
   $alt­text = ($meta[’keywords’] . ” ” . $meta[’camera’]);
   // get the cap­tion / descrip­tion field
   if (!$descrip­tion = $meta[’caption’])
   $descrip­tion = ($meta[’exif_desc’] . “” . $meta[’keywords’]);
   // get the file date/time from exif
   $time­stamp = $meta[’timestamp’];
   // update data­base
   $result = $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare(“UPDATE $wpdb->nggpictures SET alt­text = %s, descrip­tion = %s, image­date = %s WHERE pid = %d”, $alt­text, $descrip­tion, $time­stamp, $pic_id) );
   // add the tags
   if ($meta[’keywords’]) {
   $taglist = explode(‘,’, $meta[’keywords’]);
   wp_set_object_terms($pic_id, $taglist, ‘ngg_tag’);
   } // add tags
   }// error check
   } // foreach

   return true;

   }

   // **************************************************************
   func­tion get_MetaData($picPath) {
   // must be Gallery absPath + filename

   require_once(NGGALLERY_ABSPATH . ‘/lib/meta.php’);

   $meta = array();

   $pdata = new nggMeta($picPath);
   $meta[’title’] = $pdata->get_META(‘title’);
   $meta[’caption’] = $pdata->get_META(‘caption’);
   $meta[’keywords’] = $pdata->get_META(‘keywords’);
   $meta[’timestamp’] = $pdata->get_date_time();
   $meta[’exif_desc’] = ($pdata->get_META(‘camera’) . “, ” . $pdata->get_META(‘focal_length’) . “, ” . $pdata->get_META(‘shutter_speed’) . “, ” . $pdata->get_META(‘aperture’) . “, ISO ” . $pdata->get_META(‘iso’) . “, ” . $pdata->get_META(‘created_timestamp’));

   return $meta;

   }

   after updat­ing functions.php as above, upload a new image, or just click on a thumb in the gallery admin panel and select “import meta­data” from the drop down and click ok. You will see descrip­tion field update which should pop­u­late exif into light­box, or float­box in my case.

   Reply
   • Przemek says:

     April 11, 2009 at 1:12 pm  Przemek(Quote)

     Thanks Dave for com­ment, your solu­tion works great.
     BTW, great pho­tos at your website.

     Reply
3. KonstantinMiller says:

   July 7, 2009 at 4:48 am  KonstantinMiller(Quote)

   I have been look­ing look­ing around for this kind of infor­ma­tion. Will you post some more in future? I’ll be grate­ful if you will.

   Reply
4. Chris says:

   August 27, 2009 at 5:00 pm  Chris(Quote)

   Hello,

   How can this code be mod­i­fied for the fol­low­ing format:

   Title
   Author
   Descrip­tion
   Shut­ter, aper­ture, ISO

   EG:
   Morn­ing Rest
   John Smith
   A dewy drag­on­fly rests pur­ple loost­rife early in the morn­ing.
   1/8 sec­ond, f8, ISO 100

   Also, if these fields are blank, I’d like them left blank.
   Chris

   Reply
5. Przemek says:

   September 1, 2009 at 8:33 am  Przemek(Quote)

   @Chris
   You have to check if exif func­tion can retrive fields you’ve wanted and replace code like < ?php echo $exif['camera'] ?> with code some­thing like < ?php echo $exif['author'] ?> and so on in singlepic.php file.
   It’s just a guess, I can­not check it right now.

   Prze­mek

   Reply
6. Brady Sammons says:

   May 29, 2010 at 6:44 pm  Brady Sammons(Quote)

   So I replaced all my code with yours, no errors, all appears well…I click the “import meta-data” but­ton, and I get a progress bar and dia­logue that says “action com­plete” how­ever when I view my page and click and on image and light box pops up i get no meta data??? I would really appre­ci­ate any help. Its for school thanks

   Reply
   • Przemek says:

     May 30, 2010 at 6:00 am  Przemek(Quote)

     Brady,
     Are you using my solu­tion (edit­ing singlepic.php) or dav­ejp one?

     Reply