[Resolved] Get EXIF location information

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[ivoR]

I am trying to: Get EXIF data from a (user) uploaded image and use it in a location field (Toolset Views). Let me explain: a user has to upload a picture and a location. After uploading a picture I would like to use the location data (if any) of the picture as a default in the location input field (so the user doesn't have to type the location if we can get it from the image)

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[Beda]

With EXIF you mean metadata embedded within images?

That's not possible, I am not even sure WordPress can read that.

It seems though wp_get_attachment_metadata() can read it, and outputs it in the "['image_meta']['created_timestamp']" array value.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_attachment_metadata

You can therefore create a ShortCode that does exactly this, it gets the above value from the Database AFTER it is uploaded with CRED.

Then you do a cred_save_data() action on this Form and update your Custom field with the TimeStamp it should provide.
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-api/#csd

You can use a Date Field of Types that accepts Timestamp out of the box.

[ivoR]

I'm a bit further. I am now using the Exifography plugin to get EXIF data from uploaded images. It works. I can show the location data by adding [exif show="location"] to my view.

But.. I would like to show it directly after a user uploads a image (so in the CRED form). How can I upload the form with this new data so I could use the exif shortcode?

[Beda]

I do not think that ShortCode can get the data on the Fly.

So what you can do, is use that ShortCode to populate the field after - when the post is created.

But while Uploading, you need Custom JS/AJAX to check that value, as it's not yet even in teh Database as a stored meta.

What you can try is to hook into the CRED filter for the progress bar, you can use that filter to check the size of an image so theoretically it culd be possible to check other values too.
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-api/#cfauv

But how you will pass that Information on the fly to the Field in CRED, this requires Custom Code.

I do not see a "No-Code" Solution here.