# Searchable Web Gallery Generator works with IPTC data and Joomla

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searchable-web-gallery-generator-works-with-iptc-data-and-joomla/497017>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 19, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searchable-web-gallery-generator-works-with-iptc-data-and-joomla/497017 "2009-05-19T22:14:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searchable-web-gallery-generator-works-with-iptc-data-and-joomla/497017/1 "2009-05-19T22:14:30Z")

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The title pretty much says it.

I am planning to move to Joomla and I want to be able to tag the images via the IPTC metadata, have that data read and extracted into a database, searched, and generate a webpage of thumbnails linking to the images returned in the search.

I have found a number of things that KINDA do that, but not quite. Or, if they DO do that, they cost a fortune.

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**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searchable-web-gallery-generator-works-with-iptc-data-and-joomla/497017/2 "2009-05-20T07:41:45Z")

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> [@Stoid](#):
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> I am planning to move to Joomla and I want to be able to tag the images via the IPTC metadata, have that data read and extracted into a database, searched, and generate a webpage of thumbnails linking to the images returned in the search.

I use [Gallery2](http://gallery.menalto.com/) embedded into Joomla (not 1.5 yet, but I’ll play with it soon) - it can do tag reading, create dynamic albums etc.

Si