Comments on: imagick php module build using ImageMagick 5

By: LAMPdocs: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

LAMPdocs: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:13:42 +0000

How to Add Imagemagick Support to PHP…

How to add imagemagick functions support to your php installation…….

By: Granite

Granite — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:56 +0000

Very interesting post you wrote. Glad I have stumbled upon it. Cheers!

By: - Marius -

- Marius - — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:40:54 +0000

Pierre: probably your code is using newer features in imagick not available in your install. You might be better to ask this on the imagick maillists, and be sure to also include your installed versions.

ps. imagick-2.1.x is stable at this time and it is built on ImageMagick version 6.2.4+; this was not the case when I wrote this post . If possible I would run v2.1.1 at this time. hth.

By: Pierre Söderman

Pierre Söderman — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:04:42 +0000

Thanks for a great guide and comments about php5-dev. I have succesfully installed imagick but get an error when I try it out:

Uncaught exception ‘ImagickException’ with message ‘Can not process empty wand’

Anybody have a clue?

By: - Marius -

- Marius - — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:28:56 +0000

Prasad: if you are running php5 the package is called php-pear (if you are still using php4 the package you need is php4-pear).

By: Prasad

Prasad — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:48:39 +0000

hi ahmed,

in your command:
sudo apt-get install pear imagemagick libmagick9-dev

is it pear or php-pear????
this command did not work me..I am using ubuntu 7.04.

could you help ???
thanks
prasad.

By: Ahmad Nassri

Ahmad Nassri — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:08:01 +0000

there is a php5-imagick package in the ubuntu repositories which is supposedly enables the same php5 extension, however for some reason that package did not work for me, i choose to install imagick using PECL which is more helpful in the future to stay up to date with newer releases, this is important since this is still in beta!

here’s a summery of what you need:
1st you need to have the pear and imagemagick packages of course.

you will also need to install “libmagick9-dev” package.
sudo apt-get install pear imagemagick libmagick9-dev

then simply:

sudo pear install -f PECL/Imagick

the “-f” will force the latest version, which is recommended to keep up to date.

you will be asked to provide the prefix of Imagemagick installation. leave this as “autodetect” and it should work fine.

it should automatically add “extension=imagick.so” to your php.ini
but in case it doesn’t do it yourself.

PS: don’t forget to restart apache to enable the new extension

hope this helps.

By: Karsten

Karsten — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:08:19 +0000

Gotta get Zimbra on the mailserver poll. Admittedly it’s Postifx in the curtains, but it really stands out…

Karsten

By: - Marius -

- Marius - — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:23:42 +0000

Thanks for you helpful addition!… I definitely had in mind the note about php5-dev package, but I have no idea how I missed it out in the end.

Thanks,
- Marius -

By: Ordynateur

Ordynateur — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:37:39 +0000

Hi,

I would like to add a few words to your tutorial (for all newbies like me…) :

You need “php5-dev” package for using “phpize” commands…

I did not have the package installed on my computer and phpize command returned a bash error “command unavailable”

While I carried out research on phpize I found another way of making this installation more easily on a ubuntu linux computer :

sudo pecl install imagick-0.9.11