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Hoose
Asked: 2020-09-22 13:31:45 +0800 CST 2020-09-22 13:31:45 +0800 CST

Get the creation date of an image

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I have been looking for a way to get the creation date of an image, that is, to obtain the date and time that the image was created, and I can't find anything related on the web.

Suppose I have a form, which has several inputsand among them a input file, which allows me to upload an image and store its path in the database.

However, how can I get the date and time the image was created?

EYE: Not the date / time it was uploaded from the form, but since the image was taken from the camera.

Is there any way to get that data?

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php

3 Answers

  1. Actually with the filectime function you get the date of the last modification of a file, which I do not know if it is what you are looking for

    An example of use:

    $nombre_archivo = 'archivo.txt';
if (file_exists($nombre_archivo)) {
echo "La última modificación de $nombre_archivo fue: " . date("F d Y H:i:s.", filectime($nombre_archivo));
}

    You can give it the format you want using date()

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  2. Best Answer

    With #filectimeyou can get the creation date on Windows or the modification date on UNIX-based OS. This function will return the date in timestamp. Then you can format it, for example:

    $timestamp = filectime('/ruta/a/la/imagen.jpg');
$date = date("d M  Y H:i", $timestamp);
echo $date; // 21 Septiembre 2016 17:07
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  3. According to your description, the function exif_read_data(ruta_de_la_imagen)should be useful to you.

    I share the link to the php documentation about it, I hope you can solve it. http://php.net/manual/es/function.exif-read-data.php

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