Archive for November, 2008

I managed to get ImageMagick and more importantly the IMagick PHP extension running the other day. Here’s what i did:

1. install image magick - ImageMagick-6.4.6-Q16 (just download the installer from the image magick website)
2. get the right dll and put it into my php ext folder (downloaded it from here: http://valokuva.org/?page_id=50 -> i grabbed the php_imagick_dyn-Q16.dll because it was the closest to my php version (5.2.6) and was Q16 which matched my ImageMagick install)
3. add extension=php_imagick_dyn-Q16.dll to the php.ini
4. restart apache and then voila!

wow! that was easy! now it’s time to do some magick

Here’s a quick tip - if you’re running IIS and use the SWFObject static method. IIS throws an error when you nest object tags. To workaround this you can put an empty asp tag in the start of the nested object tags like so: <<%%>object

Here’s more detail on that solution:

http://juicystudio.com/article/object-paranoia.php#update

And the full detail in the SWFObject docs:

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/faq