exif_thumbnail

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

exif_thumbnail — Retrieve the embedded thumbnail of an image

Description

exif_thumbnail(
    resource|string $file,
    int &$width = null,
    int &$height = null,
    int &$image_type = null
): string|false

exif_thumbnail() reads the embedded thumbnail of an image.

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

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.

Parameters

file: The location of the image file. This can either be a path to the file or a stream resource.
width: The return width of the returned thumbnail.
height: The returned height of the returned thumbnail.
image_type: The returned image type of the returned thumbnail. This is either TIFF or JPEG.

Return Values

Returns the embedded thumbnail, or false if the image contains no thumbnail.

Changelog

Version	Description
7.2.0	The `file` parameter now supports both local files and stream resources.

Examples

Example #1 exif_thumbnail() example

<?php
$image = exif_thumbnail('/path/to/image.jpg', $width, $height, $type);

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';
}
?>

Notes

Note:
If the file is used to pass a stream to this function, then the stream must be seekable. Note that the file pointer position is not changed after this function returns.

User Contributed Notes 5 notes

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Eric ¶

20 years ago


This will allow you to manipulate the thumbnail image ($imgJpeg) using the various gd commands:

<?php
  if (($imgJpeg = exif_thumbnail($strImagePath)) === false)
    print "No Thumbnail!";
  else
    $imgJpeg = imageCreateFromString($imgJpeg);
?>

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thrustvector at 'gee'mail dot com ¶

16 years ago


If you've edited the image with image editing software and it no longer contains an exif thumbnail, I've created a script that will add one back into it, using the "PHP Exif Library": http://pel.sourceforge.net/index.php

<?php
require_once('../PEL/PelJpeg.php');
require_once('../PEL/PelIfd.php');
$fullpath = 'images/DSC_0013c.JPG';  # path of source image (does not contain an exif thumbnail)
      
$jpeg = new PelJpeg($fullpath);
 $exif = $jpeg->getExif();
 $tiff = $exif->getTiff();
 $ifd0 = $tiff->getIfd();        # need this so that we can later link it to the new IFD 

 $ifd1 = $ifd0->getNextIfd();
if (!$ifd1) {        # Only create thumbnail if one doesn't exist (i.e. there is no IFD1)
    $ifd1 = new PelIfd(1);
    $ifd0->setNextIfd($ifd1); # point ifd0 to the new ifd1 (or else ifd1 will not be read)

    $original = ImageCreateFromString($jpeg->getBytes()); # create image resource of original
    $orig_w=imagesx($original);
    $orig_h=imagesy($original);
    $wmax = 160;
    $hmax = 120;

    if ($orig_w>$wmax || $orig_h>$hmax) {
        $thumb_w=$wmax;
        $thumb_h=$hmax;
        if ($thumb_w/$orig_w*$orig_h>$thumb_h)
            $thumb_w=round($thumb_h*$orig_w/$orig_h); # maintain aspect ratio
        else
            $thumb_h=round($thumb_w*$orig_h/$orig_w);
    }
    else { # only set the thumb's size if the original is larger than 'wmax'x'hmax'
        $thumb_w=$orig_w;
        $thumb_h=$orig_h;
    }

        # create image resource with thumbnail sizing
    $thumb=imagecreatetruecolor($thumb_w,$thumb_h); 
        ## Resize original and copy to the blank thumb resource
    imagecopyresampled($thumb,$original,
                               0,0,0,0,$thumb_w,$thumb_h,$orig_w,$orig_h);

        # start writing output to buffer
    ob_start();        
        # outputs thumb resource contents to buffer
    ImageJpeg($thumb);    
        # create PelDataWindow from buffer thumb contents (and end output to buffer)
    $window = new PelDataWindow(ob_get_clean()); 

    if ($window) {    

        $ifd1->setThumbnail($window); # set window data as thumbnail in ifd1
        $outpath = $fullpath; # overwrite original jpg file
        file_put_contents($outpath, $jpeg->getBytes()); # write everything to output filename
            # Show thumbnail in file:
        echo '<img src="thumb_exif.php?image='.$outpath.'" border=0 alt="If you see this, it did not work"><br>';

        
    }
}
else {
    echo 'ifd1 already exists! (IFD1 is where the thumbnail is stored)<br>';
}
?>
<?php # This is the code in thumb_exif.php :
        $imgdat = exif_thumbnail($_REQUEST['image'], $width, $height, $type);
        header('Content-type: ' . image_type_to_mime_type($type));
        echo($imgdat);
?>

If you have a lot of such files, you can easily make a script that searches them out and adds thumbnails to their exif.

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Miguel Vitorino ¶

17 years ago


use this if you want to embed a thumbnail directly on the HTML page without writing it first to a file:

<?php
$image = exif_thumbnail($file, $width, $height, $type);

echo "<img  width='$width' height='$height' src='data:image/gif;base64,".base64_encode($image)."'>";
?>

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Anonymous ¶

17 years ago


If you want to convert from TIFF to JPG you can use ImageMagick if it is installed in your server.

<?php
$exec = 'convert /path/to/file.tiff /path/to/file.jpg 2>&1';
@exec($exec, $exec_output, $exec_retval);

//possible error
print_r($exec_output)
?>

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hanspeter dot debets at dendrite dot com ¶

19 years ago


Great that the thumbnail can be in TIFF format (f.i. Kodak cameras have embedded thumbnail in TIFF) BUT I have not been able to show TIFF as an embedded image in HTML (using the <IMG...> tag). There seems to be no function in PHP to change TIFF to, lets say, JPG. (imagecreatefromstring gives a 'unknown datatype' error for the TIFF stream. So below sample works great for JPEG embedded thumbnail, but not for TIFF embedded (but then, maybe I did something wrong?):

test_exif.php:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
    <TITLE>Test EXIF Read  </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
$image='P0000614.JPG';
echo("<B>". $image. "</B>:<BR><BR>\n");

$exif = exif_read_data($image, 'ANY_TAG',true);
if (!$exif===false)
{
    echo("Image contains headers<br><br>");
    echo("<A href=showthumb.php?image=" . $image ."> <IMG border=0 src=showthumb.php?image=" . $image ."></A><BR><BR>");

    foreach ($exif as $key => $section) 
    {
        foreach ($section as $name => $val) 
        {
            echo "$key.$name: $val<br>\n";
        }
    }
}
else
{
    echo("Sorry, image <B>".$image . "</B> does not contain (readable) EXIF data.");
}
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

showthumb.php:

<?php
$imgdat = exif_thumbnail($_REQUEST['image'],$width, $height, $type);
header('Content-type: ' . image_type_to_mime_type($type));
echo($imgdat);
?>

When clicking on the <A> opens the TIFF image in the program that windows assigned to this type, but the JPEG opens in the browser.

I am using PHP 4.3.6 on windows iis 4 (yeah, I know.....)

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exif_thumbnail

Description

Parameters

Return Values

Changelog

Examples

Notes

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