EXIF orientation is now respected and the original rotation angle stored in the database

app/Console/Commands/ProcessUploadCommand.php

@@ -106,15 +106,43 @@ class ProcessUploadCommand extends Command
 
         // Read the Exif data
         $exifData = @exif_read_data($photoFile);
+        $angleToRotate = 0;
 
-        // For debugging:
+        if (isset($exifData['Orientation']))
-        //dump($exifData);
+        {
+            switch ($exifData['Orientation'])
+            {
+                case 3:
+                    $angleToRotate = 180;
+                    break;
+
+                case 6:
+                    $angleToRotate = 270;
+                    break;
+
+                case 8:
+                    $angleToRotate = 90;
+                    break;
+            }
+
+            if ($angleToRotate > 0)
+            {
+                $originalPhotoResource = $this->imageHelper->rotateImage($originalPhotoResource, $angleToRotate);
+
+                if ($angleToRotate == 90 || $angleToRotate == 270)
+                {
+                    $photo->width = $imageInfo[1];
+                    $photo->height = $imageInfo[0];
+                }
+            }
+        }
 
         $photo->metadata_version = ProcessUploadCommand::METADATA_VERSION;
         $photo->taken_at = $this->metadataDateTime($exifData);
         $photo->camera_make = $this->metadataCameraMake($exifData);
         $photo->camera_model = $this->metadataCameraModel($exifData);
         $photo->camera_software = $this->metadataCameraSoftware($exifData);
+        $photo->rotation = $angleToRotate;
         $photo->save();
 
         // Generate and save thumbnails

app/Helpers/ImageHelper.php

@@ -85,4 +85,31 @@ class ImageHelper
 
         return $im;
     }
+
+    public function rotateImage($imageResource, $angle)
+    {
+        imagesetinterpolation($imageResource, IMG_SINC);
+
+        return imagerotate($imageResource, $angle, 0);
+
+        /*switch ($angle)
+        {
+            case 90:
+            case 270:
+                // Need a new image canvas
+                $maxDimension = ($photo->width > $photo->height ? $photo->width : $photo->height);
+                $newImageResource = imagecreatetruecolor($maxDimension, $maxDimension);
+                imagecopy($newImageResource, $imageResource, 0, 0, 0, 0, $photo->width, $photo->height);
+                $newImageResource = imagerotate($newImageResource, $angle, 0);
+                $imageResource = $newImageResource;
+                break;
+
+            case 180:
+                // We can just rotate this in-place
+                $imageResource = imagerotate($imageResource, $angle, 0);
+                break;
+        }
+
+        return $imageResource;*/
+    }
 }

database/migrations/2016_09_02_220323_add_photo_metadata_columns.php

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ class AddPhotoMetadataColumns extends Migration
             $table->string('camera_software')->nullable();
             $table->integer('width')->nullable();
             $table->integer('height')->nullable();
+            $table->integer('rotation')->nullable();
         });
     }
 
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ class AddPhotoMetadataColumns extends Migration
             $table->dropColumn('camera_software');
             $table->dropColumn('width');
             $table->dropColumn('height');
+            $table->dropColumn('rotation');
         });
     }
 }