exif_thumbnail

Description

exif_thumbnail() reads the embedded thumbnail of a TIFF or JPEG image. If the image contains no thumbnail FALSE will be returned.

The parameters width, height and imagetype are available since PHP 4.3.0 and return the size of the thumbnail as well as its type. It is possible that exif_thumbnail() cannot create an image but can determine its size. In this case, the return value is FALSE but width and height are set.

If you want to deliver thumbnails through this function, you should send the mimetype information using the header() function. The following example demonstrates this:

Example 1. exif_thumbnail() example <?php if (array_key_exists('file',$_REQUEST)) { $image = exif_thumbnail($_REQUEST['file'], $width, $height, $type); } else { $image = false; } if ($image!==false) { header("Content-type: ".image_type_to_mime_type($type)); echo $image; exit; } else { // no thumbnail available, handle the error here echo "No thumbnail available"; } ?>

Starting from version PHP 4.3.0, the function exif_thumbnail() can return thumbnails in TIFF format.

See also exif_read_data() and image_type_to_mime_type().