nadavkav

I did updated my KC to kingcomposer is 2.7.8, but it did not help.
Only disabling Gutenberg helped.

Found a solution ??
After installing: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/disable-gutenberg/
And disabling Gutenberg, everything started to work again.

It seems I have a problematic SSL certificate
following instruction to disable cURL from using it worked around this issue ??
as suggested here: https://www.drupal.org/node/990576

set cURL SSL to:
zencoder-video/services/zencoder/http.php
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => FALSE

Same here ??

the exif support i had was a patch i did on version 0.6??
before you had meta data support.

i wrote to you about it in :
https://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/nextgen-gallery-todo-list/
(look for nadavkav post)

i am considering to revert to that patch since i am unable to read those exif comment even after i disable iptc read ??

i read in the php manual that : https://il.php.net/exif_read_data
has some reading issues ??? maybe i am experiencing some of them ??

see quote of some of the “exif patch” post:

get PHP Metadata toolkit from here : https://www.ozhiker.com/electronics/pjmt/index.html

install the toolkit folder under wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery
( i called it jpeg-exif-tlkit )
now, edit the file admin/manage.php
add some includes upfront

$GLOBALS[’HIDE_UNKNOWN_TAGS’] = TRUE;
define(’ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
$Toolkit_Dir = ABSPATH.”wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/jpeg-exif-tlkit/”; // Ensure dir name includes trailing slash
include $Toolkit_Dir . ‘Toolkit_Version.php’; // Change: added as of version 1.11
include $Toolkit_Dir . ‘JPEG.php’; // Change: Allow this example file to be easily relocatable – as of version 1.11
include $Toolkit_Dir . ‘PictureInfo.php’;
include $Toolkit_Dir . ‘EXIF.php’;

and around the “rescan folder” lines 163~
change the lines that add new pictures to the database as follows…

foreach($imageslist as $picture) {
//echo WINABSPATH.$gallerypath.”/”.$picture . “:\n”;
// Retrieve the header information
$jpeg_header_data = get_jpeg_header_data( WINABSPATH.$gallerypath.”/”.$picture );
//Output the JPEG Comment
//$picture_description = Interpret_Comment_to_HTML( $jpeg_header_data );
$picture_description = get_jpeg_Comment( $jpeg_header_data );

$result = $wpdb->query(”INSERT INTO $wpdb->nggpictures (galleryid, filename, alttext, description, exclude) VALUES (’$act_gid’, ‘$picture’, ‘$picture’, ‘$picture_description’, 0) “);

that’s it ??

now exif comment are read when new jpeg files are inserted into the database.

thanks again for this beautiful plug in

i found out that :
$meta[‘caption’] = $pdata->get_META(‘caption’);
( in get_MetaData )

is reading an iptc tag that has no encoding and is pure ASCII
and it has exactly what i see “???? ?????? ??????” in the first place.

and that it is not getting to the point in the code where it can read EXIF data (i think)

// defined order XMP , before IPTC and EXIF.
if ($value = $this->get_XMP($object))
return $value;
….

i checked the original image (jpeg) with exiv2 and it has all the data in it.

i just can not figure out the name of the tag i can set in:
$meta[‘caption’] = $pdata->get_META(‘????’);
the get the UserComments from the EXIF meta data and not the IPTC meta data section.

any ideas ?

btw, i read that IPTC is only ASCII (in the specs!) very sad to know.

this core-hack helped me too.
i actually thought the links/categories issue was a bug !

now, everything works fine ??
thanks

I can confirm this. I just disabled Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159265 and my search started to work again.
( i use the hebrew version of wp ver 2.0.7 )