Step by step for installing exifer

[usafdcc]

Greetings to all,
First off I would like to say that I enjoy using Pixelpost and the help that I have recieved from all of you. I have one humble request. Would someone by chance have or are willing to work up a detailed installation guide of exifer for PixelPost. Specifically for those whos host will not enable/flag exif on a php compile. I do know about this link http://www.pixelpost.org/forum/viewt...c&start=15 and I followed it's instructions, but I still cannot get it to work. I think this would be helpful for any future pixelpost users

[Seuss]

Just wondering what camera your shooting with? It looks like the D70 in your avatar and if so then exifer won't work properly by default with the EXIF data put out by the D70. If this is the case and you need further help on getting it to work, send me an e-mail, you can find it at my site here.

Also ensure that you're saving files properly if using Photoshop to do your post-processing. If you use the "Save For Web" feature or Image Ready to convert files to .jpg then all EXIF data will be dumped in an attempt to create a smaller filesize. You need to use "Save As" in Photoshop to retain any EXIF data.

Hope this helps

[Anonymous]

Provided you followed the steps exactly as I posted and given that your host doesn't have exif enabled then simply remove:

if(extension_loaded(exif)) {

And it's following closing brace. Or just change it to say:

if(true) {

Hopefully that's correct PHP

Originally Posted by usafdcc

Greetings to all,
Specifically for those whos host will not enable/flag exif on a php compile. I do

[usafdcc]

That was definatly the answer. Now I need to get it to show in the comment popup, and i'll be golden. Thank you

UPDATE: See http://www.pixelpost.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=230 for the solution to showing exif in the comments

[Anonymous]

okay i followed every bit of code there is to try to get this to work. now when i got to the index.php "my site" its a blank page. anyone else have this happen?

[raminia+]

oh dear you have errrors is you php file.
check the syntax.

[twum]

Originally Posted by greg

okay i followed every bit of code there is to try to get this to work. now when i got to the index.php "my site" its a blank page. anyone else have this happen?

Hi all,

I've also installed pixelpost and made all adjustments to make it suit me and that has all worked very fine.

Now I wanted to add the exif modifications and for a few days, I've not been able to get it to work. I've made all the recommendations in this post and the other one (http://www.pixelpost.org/forum/viewt...c&start=15)
but anytime I upload the two files, index.php and lang-english.php and reload the index.php, then I get a blank page.

I read in another post that it had to do with the php syntax that would come from copying the code from an html page. So I made sure I checked and used tabs instead.
I then uploaded both pages and still got a blank page.

Mistakenly, I found out that this is caused by the lang-english.php file. If I put the original one back and keep the modified index.php, then it loads fine. But of course no exif data.

What more could we do? The changes to be made to the language file, do we just append the code to the bottom of the file? Say after the exif data section?

[update] I added the error handler and this is the error line I got:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in lang-english.php on line 66

This is where I have added the code:
$lenses = array(
"Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II",
"Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6",
"Sigma 24-135mm f/2.8-4.5 ASP IF",
"Canon EF 80-200mm f/4.5-5.6 II",
"Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX ASP DG DF Macro"
);
thanks a lot in advance for your help
twum

[raminia+]

Originally Posted by twum

I added the error handler and this is the error line I got:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in lang-english.php on line 66

This is where I have added the code:
$lenses = array(
"Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II",
"Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6",
"Sigma 24-135mm f/2.8-4.5 ASP IF",
"Canon EF 80-200mm f/4.5-5.6 II",
"Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX ASP DG DF Macro"
);
thanks a lot in advance for your help
twum

you have a syntax error . a missed '$' or ';' or something similar.

[twum]

Hi Raminia,

Thanks a lot for the quick reply.

I wouldn't know where to put the $ or ; in the code. I'm not good at all with php, but I just went to php.net and checked there how to write arrays and it seems to be correctly written.

I also removed all the spaces, so that the lens data between the brackets is all on one line, but that didn't help.

I put this bit of code, as was in one of the exifer posts at the end of the language php file, just before the php end tag, ?>

thanks
twum