"Executive",

Thanks for stating the obvious. 

As I said, I imported over 20K+ photos with EXIF keywords.  The keywords show up in Piwigo when I view metadata.

Now, how do I make keyword searching available to my users?

Here's a link to the photo database.  All 20K images have EXIF data.

   https://widernetphotos.chipster.org/piw … egory/1176

If not the Piwigo database, where would the program store metadata?  Is it reading it directly from the image file?

-- Cliff

Thanks, executive!

So, using read_metadata, I've determined that my photos have EXIF keyword information duplicated (for redundancy and hoots) in three fields.

I've edited the CONF file to use EXIF and mapped "tags" to "Keywords"

The image pages still display the EXIF fields I've chosen, but not as tags.

What's biting my butt now? I can't seem to run the Synchronize tool.  I get a "503 Server Unavailable" error.  I've asked my hosting company to look into it.

Config information below...

Best,

-- Cliff


read_metadata gave me a full report on the metadata in my file.  Here's a sample:

EXIF Fields in FamilyWoman.JPG
FileName = FamilyWoman.JPG
FileDateTime = 1686252420
FileSize = 1868844
FileType = 2
MimeType = image/jpeg
SectionsFound = ANY_TAG, IFD0, EXIF, WINXP
COMPUTED
      html = width="2967" height="3216"
      Height = 3216
      Width = 2967
      IsColor = 1
      ByteOrderMotorola = 0
      ApertureFNumber = f/4.2
      UserComment = orig,favorites,portraits
      UserCommentEncoding = UNDEFINED
Make = EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Model = KODAK EASYSHARE Camera, M583
DateTime = 2013:06:15 01:34:05
YCbCrPositioning = 1
UndefinedTag:0x4746 = 0
Exif_IFD_Pointer = 256
UndefinedTag:0x8830 = 3
Keywords = orig,favorites,portraits
UserComment = orig,favorites,portraits
XPKeywords = orig,favorites,portraits


My local/config/config.inc.php file now reads:

<?php

$conf['use_exif'] = true;

$conf['show_exif_fields'] = array(
  'DateTimeOriginal',
  'Make',
  'Model',
  'Keywords'
);

$conf['use_exif_mapping'] = array('tags' => 'Keywords');

?>

@EdwardMercado
Nonsense answer. you are a spam bot aren't you?

OK. 

One more thing: I can do tons of things to change themes, configurations, etc. but ONE thing does not work: when I edit piwigo/admin.php?page=configuration | General tab, I also get a 504 error.

If I weren't already bald, I'd tear my hair out... <grin>

-- Cliff