On Builder.com.au today, there's a new article that seeks to help you build a PHP photo gallery that takes advantage of the camera's EXIF data embedded in the photos.

If you have a digital camera, you probably also have a digital photo gallery of memorable moments. And if you have a digital photo gallery, you're almost sure to have run into a very common problem: organising your photos so that they can be easily searched and indexed.

I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. With a little bit of imagination and creative thinking, it's possible to use the headers generated by your camera (and, if you have the time and motivation, further supplemented by you) to automatically organise and describe your photo collection. This article will show you how, using PHP's EXIF functions.

They step you through the process - everything from how to tell if your PHP build supports the EXIF functions all the way out to the code you'll need to set it up. It's nothing fancy, just a listing with filenames, dates, a display of the image and other image data, but it's a quick way to have a listing...