Exec and ImageMagik

[msobik]

I've read everything in the archives about exec(), system(), and passthru(), but I can't get this to work.

I'm trying to invoke ImageMagik's convert function from a php script. I can do this:

system("convert") or die("error");

and get the help for convert, but when I try this:

system("convert -border 10x10 filename1 filename2") or die("error");

I get:

error

Anyone know why I can't provide arguments to convert? I've also tried using exec and passthru. Convert has execute permissions for all users and the command works fine from the apache users shell. Incedentally, I can do:

system("ping -c 10 www.yahoo.com") or die('"error"); no problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mike

[msobik]

Fixed my own problem. I was formatting the command in Emacs to make it look pretty, but apparently, passthru, exec, etc don't like the blank spaces. Just let the line run on and wrap automatically and everything works fine.

Mike