MoreGallery MoreGallery 1.x Dealing with IPTC data

MoreGallery automatically extracts IPTC data from an image on upload and import, since v1.4. With the moregallery.prefill_from_iptc system setting enabled, it will also automatically pre fill image data from the IPTC information.

A collection of known keys are normalised, as detailed below.

  • DocumentTitle (2#005) Used to pre fill the image name on upload/import
  • Urgency (2#010)
  • Category (2#015) Used to pre fill image tags
  • Subcategories (2#020) Used to pre fill image tags
  • Keywords (2#025) Used to pre fill image tags
  • SpecialInstructions (2#040)
  • CreationDate (2#055)
  • AuthorByline (2#080)
  • AuthorTitle (2#085)
  • City (2#090)
  • State (2#095)
  • Country (2#101)
  • OTR (2#103)
  • Headline (2#105) Used to pre fill the image name
  • Source (2#110)
  • PhotoSource (2#115)
  • Copyright (2#115)
  • Caption (2#120) Used to pre fill the image name
  • CaptionWriter (2#122)

Any IPTC keys that are not in the list above are available through their numerical key in your templates.

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Identifying available data

To see what IPTC data has been extracted from an image, you can use the [[+iptc_dump]] and [[+iptc_json]] placeholders in the chunk called by the &imageTpl property on the mgGetImages snippet.

For example, you might temporarily add this to your chunk to see what’s available for each image:

<pre>[[+iptc_dump]]</pre>

which might show something like this:

Array
(
    [1#090] => %G
    [2#000] => 
    [Urgency] => 0
    [CreationDate] => 20140913
    [Copyright] => Copyright 2008-2014, SomeOne
    [Category] => category or tag
)

To then use one of these values in your template, you would use the [[+iptc.KeyHere]] placeholder, for example like so:

[[+iptc.Copyright:notempty=`<p><small>Copyright: [[+iptc.Copyright]]</small></p>`]]

Processing IPTC Data with a Snippet

To do more processing with the IPTC data, you can use the [[+iptc_json]] placeholder to get a JSON encoded object with all IPTC data extracted by MoreGallery. You can decode this data in a snippet using json_decode($data, true).