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