Just a thank you for producing this. I’m not exagerating when I say I’ve been looking for something like this for years. I’ve tried so many different gallery versions but this is by far the best. Keep up the good work.

Cheers,

James

I just migrated from a stinky e107 with a bad gallery2 bridge to a nice wordpress instalation. I thought that I was hoplessly doomed with that bloat-ware of Gallery 2 when I found your plugin.

It’s abit quirky when you run it with php_SafeMode:ON and have to upload all the photos via ftp, but it is still the fastest, leanest and easiest to use gallery system. Thanks to it my photo portfolio was up and running within an hour =)

Keep up the good work!

Chris

i was missing and EXIF integration so i add one up.
please use it more wisely then what i have done for my own use

get PHP Metadata toolkit from here : http://www.ozhiker.com/electronics/pjmt/index.html

install the toolkit folder under wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery
( i called it jpeg-exif-tlkit )
now, edit the file admin/manage.php
add some includes upfront

$GLOBALS['HIDE_UNKNOWN_TAGS'] = TRUE;
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/');
$Toolkit_Dir = ABSPATH.”wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/jpeg-exif-tlkit/”; // Ensure dir name includes trailing slash
include $Toolkit_Dir . ‘Toolkit_Version.php’; // Change: added as of version 1.11
include $Toolkit_Dir . ‘JPEG.php’; // Change: Allow this example file to be easily relocatable – as of version 1.11
include $Toolkit_Dir . ‘PictureInfo.php’;
include $Toolkit_Dir . ‘EXIF.php’;

and around the “rescan folder” lines 163~
change the lines that add new pictures to the database as follows…

foreach($imageslist as $picture) {
//echo WINABSPATH.$gallerypath.”/”.$picture . “:\n”;
// Retrieve the header information
$jpeg_header_data = get_jpeg_header_data( WINABSPATH.$gallerypath.”/”.$picture );
//Output the JPEG Comment
//$picture_description = Interpret_Comment_to_HTML( $jpeg_header_data );
$picture_description = get_jpeg_Comment( $jpeg_header_data );

$result = $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->nggpictures (galleryid, filename, alttext, description, exclude) VALUES (‘$act_gid’, ‘$picture’, ‘$picture’, ‘$picture_description’, 0) “);

that’s it

now exif comment are read when new jpeg files are inserted into the database.

thanks again for this beautiful plug in