how to execute imagick commands in php?

[Bonzo]

The way I do it is:

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exec("/usr/local/bin/convert cmyk.tif -colorspace gray gray.tif ");

Some php examples at www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick

[Bonzo]

I found you can use relative paths OK rather than absolute ones. Also I have found that using ../../www/ etc. causes a problem as ImageMagick interperates it as something else.

If you want to use something like ../../www/ put it into a variable instead and use the variable in the exe comand.

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$image_in = "../../var/www/test1.jpg ";
$image_out = "../../var/www/test2.jpg";

exec("/usr/bin/convert $image_in $image_out");

If the code is in the same directory this should work.

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exec("/usr/bin/convert test1.jpg test2.jpg");

[anthony]

I thing the original user may have been taking about the "imagick" PECL interface not the command line.

The Only example I have however is just a basic load and output version

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<?
        $handle = imagick_readimage( getcwd() . "/animated.gif" ) ;
        if ( imagick_iserror( $handle ) )
        {
                $reason      = imagick_failedreason( $handle ) ;
                $description = imagick_faileddescription( $handle ) ;

                print "handle failed!<BR>\nReason: $reason<BR>\nDescription: description<BR>\n" ;
                exit ;
        }

        print "Number of frames in image: " . imagick_getlistsize( $handle ) .  "<BR>\n" ;
?>

[monsters]

not be a jerk, this section is for magickwand questions, your questions are just imagemagick + php questions

hope you found your answers though.