Imagemagick and PHP

[Mat-d-rat]

I used the script /scripts/installimagemagick and from prompt command "convert -version" reports "Version: ImageMagick 6.4.8 2010-03-22 Q16 OpenMP http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC" - All good so far. But I can't see how to get the "Imagick class" working in php. I see no .so files for imagemagic or imagick, what am I missing?

[Mat-d-rat]

Ok, look slike I need to run "pecl install Imagick"..
BUT I can't as I have my temp partition set with noexec! I tried "mount -o remount,rw,exec,nosuid /temp", no errors, but mount -l shows it with noexec still, what next?

[cpanelkenneth]

The PECL module installer in WHM will setup the proper tmp paths for you.

Recent versions of imagick have a bug that prevents successful installation when the installed version of ImageMagick is < 6.5.0. See for example:

PECL :: Bug #17016 :: Compile Error
PECL :: Bug #16863 :: Won't build with imagemagick version > 6.4.3 and < 6.5.0

To get imagick installed one must either use version 2.2.2 of imagick or manually patch imagick_helpers.c in the imagick distribution.

This document explains how to install imagick 2.2.2:

How to install imagick for PHP | cPanel Admins

Please note that you can ignore the yum install step as /scripts/installimagemagick already did that for you.

[Mat-d-rat]

Had to enable proc_open in php to install (disabled it now will see what happens) but all running. THANK YOU!

[Mat-d-rat]

Well bum, I need version > 6.3.6 bad 6.2.8 is installed. Clues welcome

[cpanelkenneth]

Well bum, I need version > 6.3.6 bad 6.2.8 is installed. Clues welcome

That's odd. What is your operating system and cPanel version number?

Executing /scripts/installimagemagick on a test server resulted in ImageMagick 6.4.8-2 being installed. The version installed by that script should be from the tarball in /usr/local/cpanel/src/3rdparty/gpl

EDIT:
Actually after re-reading your initial post, you do have 6.4.8-2 of ImageMagick installed. What is telling you that you have 6.2.8 installed?

[Mat-d-rat]

Your right, I made an "asss"umption! The reason being is that I'm trying to use
PHP: Imagick::distortImage - Manual whch requires 6.3.6 - yet I get "Fatal error: Call to undefined method ImagickDraw::distortImage()"... other functions and tests seem to work

BTS Thanks

[ReiJu]

Hi,

I'm sorry if my post here seems to hijack thread starter's problem. But since the howto is explained here, I think it's unwise to start another thread.

I followed the howto from How to install imagick for PHP | cPanel Admins, and everything successfully installed without error (some warning though). Checked /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/, and imagick.so is installed there. I added the line extension="imagick.so" in /usr/lib/php.ini and in my per-site-php.ini (under public_html). To make sure, I restarted apache several times.

But it's so odd, that I can't see any imagick or ImageMagick mentioned in phpinfo().

Is there something that I might missed? I even recompile apache and php (easyapache), but nothing changed. Imagick still absent from phpinfo.

Maybe I need to look at some other configs?

Here's my system summary:
RHEL 5.5
Apache 2.2.15
PHP 5.2.13 (suPHP)
ImageMagick 6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1 (from rpm -a), 6.5.7-10 (from convert --version)

Thank you.

[MikeDVB]

I've always just added the binary directory to the open_basedir directive and used the binaries directly myself.

[DomineauX]

ImageMagick.org now releases current version CentOS 5 RPM's from:
ImageMagick: Install from Binary Distribution

Alas no CentOS 4 binaries still.