OK. Got some more fleshed out:

http://www.thinkdreams.com/devzen/index.php?album=njsummer&image=IMG_2120.JPG

If you note, it displays the image information before the print_r statement (which prints out all the raw data). Thus I have most of the common EXIF information now stored as variables, which you should be able to take a then cache in the DB using the functions you're writing. Once we have the data in the DB, then we can do fancier stuff like automatic image rotates if it's out of rotation, etc.

I've sent this to you via email Tristan. See what you can make of it, and let me know how you want me to proceed further. I think I've covered most of the major variables. A lot of the maker data for specific camera models is pretty much redundant or unnecessary IMHO.

@thinkdreams
Looks great...how to get it? I'm still engage with Exif theme, but I struggle now a little
bit with the programming structure. BTW, how could a good zenphoto documentation look
like? UML ?

Tristan's looking at the code right now, but here's what changes I've made so far:

Modified Exifixer libs and added function to assign exif tags to variables.
Modified image.php to add display of raw EXIF data and variable data.

If you send your email address to me at craig@thinkdreams.com I'll be happy to send the changed files to you. I'm using the effervescence theme for testing, but you should be able to drop the code into any theme.

And as far as docs Stef, Tristan's started fleshing out the documentation on the wiki, and I think that's where the docs will live. I would imagine we'd eventually see a PDF version or whatever, but the wiki format is fine by me because it's always available.

The docs are very much in the beginning stages, so don't expect a large amount of user information until more contributions are made to it. Feel free to contribute though!

@thinkdream
Please send me the Exif Code...if there is a problem with my email I will send it again.
Thanks in advance
@trisweb,thinkdream
Docu: How to create Pictures/Grafik for the Zenphoto Wiki? Is there a prefered open source
tool?

The Gimp is always good, or Inkscape if you want to do vector drawings.

Looking through the EXIF code sometime this week... never enough time...

Sorry Stef- Hang on. Got your email. Tris is right. Never enough time. Especially when they change daylight savings time on us.....

@thinkdreams
Thanks for your code. It works. I thinking about how to put this information inside MySQL or should we
wait for Tristan?
What about your theme "thinkdream"? Does it make sense to upgrade them to exifer?
@trisweb, thinkdreams
Is there a way with svn to merge the different code variants together? Do we have different code
branches?

I can make a new branch for you, but I would prefer you simply submitted patches to me for now. I actually have all of Craig's code, if you want me to make a branch with it. Sorry I haven't kept up, I'm quite busy right now...

I think we should continue to submit as patches rather than creating a new branch for it. Might get confusing after a while, considering you're also looking at RSS (hopefully) soon too for 1.1.

And take your time. Have to pay the bills somehow. I might be in and out the next two weeks anyway, as it's Linux training time for my company...

@thinkdreams
I changed your theme "thinkdream" to use Exifer libs. Coming from J2EE I'm still surprised
how easy it is to integrate new functionality in PHP (but still missing a PHP debugger,
sigh)
@trisweb
This weekend I will try to write the Exif information to MySQL. Tris to you have some recommendation for me where to put the code? It is just another PHP programming test
step for me...