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is_gd_image( resource|GdImage|false $image ): bool

Since
5.6.0
Source
wp-includes/media.php:4258
Determines whether the value is an acceptable type for GD image functions.

Description

In PHP 8.0, the GD extension uses GdImage objects for its data structures.
This function checks if the passed value is either a GdImage object instance or a resource of type gd. Any other type will return false.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 5.6.0
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$imageresource|GdImage|false
A value to check the type for.

Return value

bool
True if $image is either a GD image resource or a GdImage instance, false otherwise.

Performance profile

How much work a call to is_gd_image() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Trivial

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
4–11

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 12.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
13

13 places in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.

What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost is_gd_image() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always4–6none
!($image instanceof) && is_resource($image)11get_resource_type()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 12 instructions, 4–11 executed per call, 3 branches. The work does not change between versions.

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Used by · 13

Show all 13

Source code

function is_gd_image( $image ) {	if ( $image instanceof GdImage // @phpstan-ignore class.notFound (Only available with PHP8+.)		|| is_resource( $image ) && 'gd' === get_resource_type( $image )	) {		return true;	} 	return false;}

Changelog

Introduced in 5.6.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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