Getting image metadata

  • aicos

    (@aicos)


    17 years, 6 months ago

    Hi I don’t know if this is the right place to post or not, but I was wondering if some could tell me how to extract the contents from the image fields in the media library. I’ve been trying to get wp_get_attachment_metadata() to work some success.

    The thing is, the caption and description elements are blank when I examine the resulting array with print_r(). But all other elements are filled in. And they don’t seem to be in the “postmeta” table either. But when I look at the image fields again in the media library, they seem to have content.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • mrlarner

    (@mrlarner)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    just stumbled across this post…

    attachments are stored like regular posts in the posts table. caption and description are stored are post_excerpt and post_content.

    if you are getting attachments with get_children you could do something like

    if($images =& get_children( 'post_type=attachment' )){
   foreach($images as $image){
      $caption = $image->post_excerpt;
      $description = $image->post_content;
      //do whatever
   }
}

    get_children

    hope that helps!

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