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.

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.

@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

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