

Thanks to this great product you can quickly and easily flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors and apply various special effects. With ImageМagick you can work with different image files, among them GIF, JPEG, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, PostScript, SVG, and TIFF. It is being delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as a source code. Now you should see imagick loaded as an extension:Īnd you can finally after hours of suffering, use Imagick with PHP for XAMPP in Windows.ImageMagick is a free open source software suite, which allows users to create and edit bitmap images quickly and easily. Now start the apache service (or restart it in case it's already running) and go to phpinfo again. dll files (except ImageMagickObject.dll) that would be about 146 files (with prefixes CORE_* and IM_MOD_*) and then paste the copied files into the apache/bin folder of xampp (tipically C:\xampp\apache\bin). Once the content of the file is extracted, open the bin folder and copy all the. Now, extract all the files of this zip in a folder wherever you want, in this case we are going to extract the content of the zip in a folder in the desktop. In this case, we download the third option with a filesize of about 30MB ( ImageMagick-6.9.3-7-vc11-x86.zip). To download the required binaries, navigate to PECL Deps here and search in the list for Imagick:ĭownload the version that matches with the architecture of xampp and check the compiler version. To prevent any implementation error, the binaries needs to come from the same source, in this case. That's why you need to follow the steps as mentioned, otherwise you won't make Imagick to work. ImageMagick number of supported formats: 0 Download required Imagick binariesĪt this point you may be asking to yourself, really dude ? 3 different downloads? The problem with Imagick is that there are a lot of builds from different sources and if you don't download and install the right ones, it wont work or it will be loaded but if you check the Imagick extension (later, not yet) in phpinfo you'll see : Now the extension is loaded, but Imagick still won't work as it won't even be recognized as an extension if you check the phpinfo file because we need to load all the methods and the binaries that you can retrieve from the next step. Add the following line where the other extensions are loaded Then, proceed to enable the extension in your php.ini file by adding the following line: Copy php_imagick.dll file and paste in the php/ext folder inside your xampp installation path (tipically C:\xampp\php\ext): zip you will need to extract only the php_imagick.dll file. This will start the download of a zip file " php_imagick-.zip". Then a new window will load, in this page scroll to DLL List and click on the right version for your PHP version with correct architecture (of XAMPP not your operative system) and the Thread Safe in case that it's enabled in your distribution (Refer to phpinfo to know wheter your php distribution uses Thread Safe or not): Now navigate to the Imagick package in the PECL website here and select the DLL version from the latest available version (in case you've downloaded an older version of ImageMagick then download a version that accepts your version): Once the setup finishes, you can test Imagick in a new command prompt executing (that should print the version in the console): magick -version 2.

Till the moment, we don't need to configure anything for PHP, just proceed with the installation of Imagick for Windows and don't forget to check the option to add Imagick to the PATH: ImageMagick runs in almost every version for Windows (from Windows server 2009, XP to Windows 10), now from this list is important to download the latest available version with X86 architecture and DLL version because that's the architecture that XAMPP uses (normally, if not refer to the PHPINFO and download the correct version, e.g ImageMagick-Q16-x86-dll.exe):ĭownload the executable and wait. Navigate in your browser to the Downloads area of the website of Imagick and scroll to the Windows zone. Download and install ImageMagick for Windows

Note: don't forget neither to execute every setup with administrator rights.
