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title: "What types of images that PHP supports ?"  
description: "What types of images that PHP supports ?"  
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published: 2011-06-13  
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# What types of images that PHP supports ?

Using imagetypes() function to find out what types of images are supported in your PHP engine. \
imagetypes() - Returns the image types supported.\
This function returns a bit-field corresponding to the image formats supported by the version of GD linked into PHP. The following bits are returned, IMG_GIF | IMG_JPG | IMG_PNG | IMG_WBMP | IMG_XPM.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Using imagetypes() function to find out what types of images are supported in your PHP engine. \
imagetypes() - Returns the image types supported.\
This function returns a bit-field corresponding to the image formats supported by the version of GD linked into PHP. The following bits are returned, IMG_GIF | IMG_JPG | IMG_PNG | IMG_WBMP | IMG_XPM.


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