ImageMagick: Missing an image file name

DaCheata

Hi there !

Today I tried get Image Magick work on my hosted webspace.
So far no problem. There is the newest version installed, I can access the files via exec() and the give me many error messages back..... 🙁

I wasted the whole afternoon, but I couldn't find the problem.
This is what the script does (it's this one: PHP-Builder article ):

<?php
  $newsize = "120x120";

  $cmd = "/usr/bin/mogrify -resize $newsize /www/htdocs/v032924/banner.jpg 2>&1";

  exec($cmd, $exec_output, $exec_retval);

  if($exec_retval > 0)
  {
    print "ERROR: exec() error: $exec_output[0]";
  }
  else
  {
    print "Image was resized from " . $image_width . "x" .
          $image_height . " to $newsize";
  }
?>

Every time i run this I get this error:

ERROR: exec() error: mogrify: Missing an image file name.

I tried many things and other scripts and also looked for solutions in ImageMagick related mailing lists, but no results.

Thanks for your help,

Jan 🙂

DaCheata

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cyanblue

Howdy... 🙂

I am no expert at all... I just used mogrify once... 🙂

I had the same problem when I tried it on Windows... The thing that I have found is that it goes with the path...

Is '/usr/bin/' the directory that you have installed ImageMagick???
Is '/www/htdocs/v032924/banner.jpg' the full path for the banner.jpg???

If the path is set correctly, I'd try to chdir() to the directory where banner.jpg is located before hand and then run mogrify...

One question... You've mentioned 'ImageMagick related mailing lists' and where would that be???

Thank you... 🙂

DaCheata

Hi cyan !

The path to ImageMagick and the image was correct.
I got an answer in the mailing list. The "only" problem was the IM version.
It was 5.4.8 but that version didn_t work together with PHP 🙂.
I asked my host to install a newer version and they did and transfered me to a new server.

So no problem anymore, everything works fine 😉.

For you, to get help in that mailing list, too:

You can find it at http://www.imagemagick.org/www/magick-list.html

Have fun, and thanks for your answer 😉

CU Jan

/ sorry for any language problems, I'm german and so ... 😉

cyanblue

Thanks for the link... 🙂

Glad you got it sorted out...