iptcparse

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

iptcparse — Parse a binary IPTC block into single tags.

Description

array iptcparse ( string $iptcblock )

Parses an » IPTC block into its single tags.

Parameters

iptcblock: A binary IPTC block.

Return Values

Returns an array using the tagmarker as an index and the value as the value. It returns FALSE on error or if no IPTC data was found.

Examples

Example #1 iptcparse() used together with getimagesize()


<?php
$size = getimagesize('./test.jpg', $info);
if(isset($info['APP13']))
{
    $iptc = iptcparse($info['APP13']);
    var_dump($iptc);
}
?>

Notes

Note: This function does not require the GD image library.

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michael wells
03-Sep-2004 06:06


To import IPTC keywords (which are stored in an array) into a scalar, try this sort of approach:



$keywordcount = count($iptc["2#025"]);

for ($i=0; $i<$keywordcount; $i++) $keywords .= $iptc["2#025"][$i] . " ";



(you could strip the trailing space if you wanted).



If you are importing data from some Mac applications, they may put chr(213) into strings to access a closing quote character. This prints as a captial O with a tilde above it in a web browser or on Windows. You can fix this with:



function ConvertChars($in)

{

        return str_replace(chr(213),"'",$in);

}



We use aspects of this code at www.thirdlight.com when parsing IPTC tags. XMP seems to be the better solution these days (being XML based is a great improvement!!).

evan at nospam dot ozhiker dot com
09-Aug-2004 10:57


You might have noticed that several metadata fields in Photoshop are not available via IPTC. 



I have written a library "PHP JPEG Metadata Toolkit" which fixes this problem as it allows reading, writing and interpreting of virtually any type of metadata, including these missing fields.



Try it out, and download it at: 

http://www.ozhiker.com/electronics/pjmt/index.html

06-Feb-2004 12:17


View all availiable IPCT Data



function output_iptc_data( $image_path ) {    

    $size = getimagesize ( $image_path, $info);        

     if(is_array($info)) {    

        $iptc = iptcparse($info["APP13"]);

        foreach (array_keys($iptc) as $s) {              

            $c = count ($iptc[$s]);

            for ($i=0; $i <$c; $i++) 

            {

                echo $s.' = '.$iptc[$s][$i].'<br>';

            }

        }                  

    }             

}

Scin
14-Oct-2002 04:52


If you are not sure where a particular value you entered into the IPTC block in photoshop or any other software is being stored, simply run a foreach loop thru the block and find out:



(Insert a new paragraph in the beggening of the first echo)



$size = GetImageSize ("testimg.jpg", &$info);

$iptc = iptcparse($info["APP13"]);



foreach($iptc as $key => $value)

{

    echo "<b>IPTC Key:</b> $key <b>Contents:</b> ";

    foreach($value as $innerkey => $innervalue)

    {

        if( ($innerkey+1) != count($value) )

            echo "$innervalue, ";

        else

            echo "$innervalue";

    }

}

25-Apr-2002 08:28


Just to add to the above response, he missed a couple of IPTC tags:



Keywords:

$iptc["2#025"][n];   (there is a list of keywords)



Caption Writer:

$iptc["2#122"][0];



Just figured I'd note it, as the keywords can be quite important for database applications.  I got these by extracting IPTC tags from a Photoshop 6.0 file, so hopefully they are standardized ;)

pkrohn at daemonize dot com
15-Jul-2001 05:35


This took me longer than it ought to to figure out. Very handy for handling a stream of photos where the info you want is in the IPTC header. This example passes by reference, for which PHP4 will yell at you. If your need to write into the header, check out the Image::IPTCInfo Perl module.





$size = GetImageSize ("$image_name",&$info);


$iptc = iptcparse ($info["APP13"]);


if (isset($info["APP13"])) {


    $iptc = iptcparse($info["APP13"]){


        if (is_array($iptc)) {


        $caption = $iptc["2#120"][0];


    $graphic_name = $iptc["2#005"][0];


        $urgency = $iptc["2#010"][0];    


    $category = $iptc["2#015"][0];    


    // note that sometimes supp_categories contans multiple entries


$supp_categories = $iptc["2#020"][0];


$spec_instr = $iptc["2#040"][0];


$creation_date = $iptc["2#055"][0];


$photog = $iptc["2#080"][0];


$credit_byline_title = $iptc["2#085"][0];


$city = $iptc["2#090"][0];


$state = $iptc["2#095"][0];


$country = $iptc["2#101"][0];


$otr = $iptc["2#103"][0];


$headline = $iptc["2#105"][0];


$source = $iptc["2#110"][0];


$photo_source = $iptc["2#115"][0];


$caption = $iptc["2#120"][0];    }}

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