Image Magic

[php-vikas]

Can, anybody tell me about Image Magic. :shock:

How can i install it offline. I am working on Window 98 Operating system.

Thanls in advance.

Vikas Garg

[swirlee]

http://www.google.com/search?q=php+imagemagick

[Redcircle]

the windows binaries should work for windows 98. You can download them from http://www.imagemagick.org

[php-vikas]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

But still i have some question in my mind.

What is the relation between PHP and imageMagic. How can i use imageMagic with PHP?

Can you suggest me any tutorial on this topic?

I want to use Image Magic with PHP offline on window 98.

Thanks.




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[Redcircle]

The funny thing is there is no relation of imagagick to php at all.

Basically to use imagemagick you use the shell_exec() to issue commands.

To resize an image use

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<?php

$imagemagick_path = "c:\\imagemagick\\";
$new_size = "100"; //imagemagick automatically keeps proportions unless told no to.
$file = "c:\\apache\\htdocs\\uploads\\newfile.jpg"; //full path to file you want to resize

//this example uses mogrify which modifies a file and replaces the file. For an input/ouput function use convert instead
shell_exec($imagemagick_path.'mogrify -resize '.$new_size.'x'.$new_size.' '.$file);


That's all there is too it. Imagemagick has hundreds other functions. Reading the docs is the best method to learn them.

[swirlee]

The funny thing is there is no relation of imagagick to php at all.

Not so! The first result for the Google link I already posted is a link to the imagick PHP extension at PECL.

[Redcircle]

You talking about the pear extension.. I don't consider pear apart of php just like I don't consider php apart of apache. it's an extension and not built in.

[swirlee]

Actually it's a PECL extension (PEAR = classes written in PHP, PECL = extensions written in C). At any rate, if it's an option, using the extension is very much preferable to using shell_exec().

[Redcircle]

to each his own