Question

I’ve heard ImageMagick is quite powerful, so I decided I’d learn how to use it.

I tried just pasting one of the examples on php.net to see if it worked, but it doesn’t. It says the imagick class doesn’t exist.

My host is FatCow, and they do support it, but I don’t know how to set things up. I’ve looked around and I don’t quite understand.

I asked FatCow, and I this is the answer:

I have checked the issue and it seems
that Class ‘Imagick’ not found in the
script. Please add the ImageMagick
path /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick and
check the functionality. It should
work fine.

But I”m not quite sure what to do with that?

Also, I was wondering if anybody had links to some good resources to learn about ImageMagick?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You’ll have to edit your php.ini file and add:

include_path="/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick"
extension=imagick.so

This will tell php to look in that directory for additional libraries, and load the imagick extension.

Then, restart the server.