How do I write image exif data?

[ocon]

I am using PHP Version 5.3.14 compiled with ImageMagick 6.7.6-3.

I would eventually like to geotag the thumbnails my script creates using the correct exif data, but right now I am having a very difficult time just writing any exif data.

// The following is directly from PHP's website
$image = new Imagick();
$image->newImage(300, 200, "black");
$image->setImageProperty('Exif:Make', 'Imagick');
echo $image->getImageProperty('Exif:Make'); // The page does display "Imagick"

// Now I'm writing the image I just created to my hard drive and freeing my memory.
$image->writeImage("test.jpg");
$image->destroy();

// Now I'm displaying the exif data of the saved image
$exif = exif_read_data("test.jpg", 0, true);
print_r($exif);

All that is showing is:

Imagick

Array
(
    [FILE] => Array
        (
            [FileName] => test.jpg
            [FileDateTime] => 1347469943
            [FileSize] => 398
            [FileType] => 2
            [MimeType] => image/jpeg
            [SectionsFound] => 
        )

    [COMPUTED] => Array
        (
            [html] => width="300" height="200"
            [Height] => 200
            [Width] => 300
            [IsColor] => 0
        )

)

What am I doing wrong? How can I properly add exif data to my images?

[jadebox]

In spite of the examples in the documentation, I don't think that ImageMagik really writes EXIF data to the image. In your example, it's just saving a loading a property with "Exif" in the name, but not actually saving it in EXIF format.

Look at the PHP EXI Library (PEL):

[lsolesen.github.com...]

PEL supports reading and writing of EXIF data.

-- Roger