PHP has built in support for reading EXIF and IPTC metadata, but I can't find any way to read XMP?
XMP data is literally embedded into the image file so can extract it with PHP's string-functions from the image file itself.
The following demonstrates this procedure (I'm using SimpleXML but every other XML API or even simple and clever string parsing may give you equal results):
$content = file_get_contents($image);
$xmp_data_start = strpos($content, '<x:xmpmeta');
$xmp_data_end = strpos($content, '</x:xmpmeta>');
$xmp_length = $xmp_data_end - $xmp_data_start;
$xmp_data = substr($content, $xmp_data_start, $xmp_length + 12);
$xmp = simplexml_load_string($xmp_data);
Just two remarks:
file_get_contents()
as this function loads the whole image into memory. Using fopen()
to open a file stream resource and checking chunks of data for the key-sequences <x:xmpmeta
and </x:xmpmeta>
will significantly reduce the memory footprint.