[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #5162: Extract additional image metadata from EXIF/IPTC

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#5162: Extract additional image metadata from EXIF/IPTC
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 Reporter:  tellyworth   |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.5      
Component:  General      |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:           
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 The included patch extracts EXIF and IPTC metadata from uploaded files and
 stores it in the attachment metadata.  The additional metadata may be used
 by plugins or future features (photoblogging in particular).

 Currently it stores 10 fields: aperture, credit, camera (model), caption,
 created_timestamp, copyright, focal_length, iso, shutter_speed and title.
 I selected these because they're likely to be useful, and are easy to
 extract (I don't think it's desirable to store every EXIF field as most
 will never be used).

 The code as submitted here uses PHP's built-in EXIF and IPTC functions.
 PHP's EXIF functions have some shortcomings and aren't always available,
 so it would make sense to expand it to use external EXIF libraries where
 available (Exifer, PEL).

 The only place the extra image metadata is displayed at present is on the
 Manage/Uploads/Edit tab.  It's a bit rough, intended mainly for testing.

 Plugins and other code can access the image metadata using the regular
 metadata api, like so:

 {{{
 $meta = wp_get_attachment_metadata( $id );
 echo "Caption: " . $meta['image_meta']['caption'];
 }}}

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