Unable to use getimagesize on HEIC/HEIF images

[earthiverse]

Description

I downloaded the heic from the pull request #18940, and that one does work, but none of the sample images I downloaded from https://heic.digital/samples/ work.

The following code:

<?php

$dir = __DIR__;

$allowedExt = ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'heic', 'heif'];

foreach (new DirectoryIterator($dir) as $file) {
    if ($file->isDot() || !$file->isFile()) {
        continue;
    }
    
    $ext = strtolower($file->getExtension());
    if (!in_array($ext, $allowedExt, true)) {
        continue;
    }
    
    $path = $file->getPathname();
    $info = getimagesize($path);
    
    if ($info === false) {
        echo "Failed: $path\n";
        continue;
    }
    
    [$width, $height] = $info;
    echo "$path => {$width}x$height\n";
}

Resulted in this output:

Failed: /Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/soundboard.heic
Failed: /Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/shelf-christmas-decoration.heic
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/test4pix.heic => 54x84
Failed: /Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/sewing-threads.heic
Failed: /Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/chef-with-trumpet.heic
Failed: /Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/childrens-show-theater.heic
Failed: /Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/classic-car.heic
Failed: /Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/greyhounds-looking-for-a-table.heic

But I expected this output instead:

/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/soundboard.heic => 4000x3000
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/shelf-christmas-decoration.heic => 4000x3000
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/test4pix.heic => 54x84
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/sewing-threads.heic => 4000x3000
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/chef-with-trumpet.heic => 4032x3024
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/converted.jpeg => 8736x5856
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/childrens-show-theater.heic => 4032x3024
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/classic-car.heic => 3024x4032
/Users/earthiverse/Sites/media-store/tests/Codeception/Support/Data/images/heif/greyhounds-looking-for-a-table.heic => 3024x4032

PHP Version

PHP 8.5.1 (cli) (built: Dec 16 2025 15:59:07) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Built by Shivam Mathur
Zend Engine v4.5.1, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v3.5.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2025, by Derick Rethans
    with Zend OPcache v8.5.1, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

Operating System

MacOS Tahoe 26.2

[iluuu1994]

/cc @bukka @benstonezhang

[benstonezhang]

seems those photo were taken with samsung camera, is different with the photo from iphone.

[jordikroon]

It also applies to pictures made by Apple devices like an iPhone. I tried to test this with an image transferred from my phone and get the same results. The pictures in the image test folders though do seem to work.

[earthiverse]

seems those photo were taken with samsung camera, is different with the photo from iphone.

The website says (can't verify, but have no reason not to believe them) that 2 are from the iPad Air Gen 5, and 2 are from the iPhone 12 Pro.

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I also tried the images from https://github.com/tigranbs/test-heic-images/tree/master after googling and finding AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO#2794

image4.heic from there does work with getimagesize, but the other 3 do not.

tigranbs/test-heic-images#1 implies that image4.heic might be the only one with metadata

[benstonezhang]

@iluuu1994
I had checked the code, in fact, the error happen in ext/standard/libavifinfo/avifinfo.c.
Some heic image didn't have field 'iprp' in meta box, so libavifinfo can not find field "ispe" which is used to parse image width and height.
Suggest to involve owner of libavifinfo to fix.

[iluuu1994]

I don't work on this area of PHP, I'll leave this up to somebody else. Maybe @devnexen?

[Girgias]

Also pinging @ndossche as I think they were involved in the AVIX code landing too.

[ndossche]

More so involved in fixing the buffer overflows, but yeah this may need adjustment in libavifinfo. Or perhaps there's a reason it does it that way, I don't know off the top of my head.

[iliaal]

Fixed in dfac2da (PHP 8.5.0), which added HEIF/HEIC support to getimagesize(). Closing as resolved.

[earthiverse]

Fixed in dfac2da (PHP 8.5.0), which added HEIF/HEIC support to getimagesize(). Closing as resolved.

I referenced the pull request this commit is a part of in the initial message (the first sentence), saying that the sample provided did work.

However, none of the heic images I encountered in the wild worked.

I also specified the version I tested with in my initial post (8.5.1), which is after 8.5.0.

Just re-tested, and it is still broken.

PHP 8.5.7 (cli) (built: Jun  2 2026 20:59:56) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Built by Shivam Mathur
Zend Engine v4.5.7, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v3.5.3, Copyright (c) 2002-2026, by Derick Rethans
    with Zend OPcache v8.5.7, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

Can you please re-open this issue?