static function exif_info()
 {
     static $exif_info = array();
     if (empty($exif_info)) {
         // based on code by johnschaefer at gmx dot de
         // from PHP help on gd_info()
         $exif_info = array('EXIF Support' => '', 'EXIF Version' => '', 'Supported EXIF Version' => '', 'Supported filetypes' => '');
         $phpinfo_array = phpThumb_functions::phpinfo_array();
         foreach ($phpinfo_array as $line) {
             $line = trim(strip_tags($line));
             foreach ($exif_info as $key => $value) {
                 if (strpos($line, $key) === 0) {
                     $newvalue = trim(str_replace($key, '', $line));
                     $exif_info[$key] = $newvalue;
                 }
             }
         }
     }
     return $exif_info;
 }