Exif thumbnail

This snippet shows how to extract the EXIF thumbnail of a picture.

// file to read
$file = 'test.jpg';

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

// width, height and type get filled with data
// after calling "exif_thumbnail"

if ($image) {
    // send header and image data to the browser:
    header('Content-type: ' .image_type_to_mime_type($type));
    print $image;
}
else {
    // there is no thumbnail available, handle the error:
    print 'No thumbnail available';
}