[wp-hackers] Populating Image meta box fields on new image upload

[Les Bessant]

Is this any help? It's some code I found somewhere and adapted to put the EXIF title in all three text boxes on the image upload page:

add_filter('attachment_fields_to_edit', 'image_caption_to_title', 11, 2 );

function image_caption_to_title( $form_fields, $post ) {
	if ( substr( $post->post_mime_type, 0, 5 ) == 'image' ) {
		$form_fields['post_excerpt']['value'] = $post->post_title;
		$form_fields['image_alt']['value'] = $post->post_title;
	}
	return $form_fields;
	}

Works for me, anyway

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On 10 Jul 2011, at 04:28, Peter Adams wrote:

> ok, getting a little closer. I'm now using the attachment_fields_to_edit hook to populate the empty form fields on the attachment meta screen but i can't populate the "Alternate text" field. 
> 
> I see it in the $form_fields array that is passed into the hook but any label or value I set on it does not show up on the form.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> -P-
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Charles Frees-Melvin wrote:
> 
>> They are the title and the_content of the attachment:image post-type.
>> 
>> --
>> Charles E. Frees-Melvin
>> 
>> Sent from my Rogers iPhone 3G
>> 
>> On 2011-07-09, at 6:55, Peter Adams <peter at oncefuture.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi folks -
>>> 
>>> I  can't figure out how to populate the fields on the image meta box. I see that the title, and description are populated from the image's EXIF fields, but they are not stored in the attachment meta so there for i can't use wp_generate_attachment_meta filter to populate/change them.
>>> 
>>> Where are they stored?
>>> 
>>> I'd like to filter the values before they are populated in the image meta box upon new image upload.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> -P-
>>> 
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