ImageMagick Help

[woodeye]

I'm trying to write a script in PHP to convert a PDF file to a JPG or other image format so that I can do some stuff with it. I've been looking into using Imagemagick to accomplish this, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get anything to work.

I have hosting with GoDaddy.com and iPower.com, and both say that it is installed on my server, and they have both given me the path to it, but when I try to write a script to just convert a JPG to a PNG, nothing happens.

Here's what I wrote:

<?php
	$path = "/usr/bin/";

exec($path." convert Demo_Ad.jpg demo_ad.png");
?>

When I run that script obviously nothing shows on screen, but if I look in the directory, nothing is there either.

I've tried running "echo exec($path." convert -version");" which didn't give any response either.

Do I have to have MagicWand or IMagick installed on the server to use ImageMagick?

Can someone please turn me on to some real PHP examples that I can run on my server to see if it is installed correctly and working?

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions or advice!

[dagon]

i don't know where your getting your syntax from but your not using php's ImageMagick in the example above.

[johanafm]

Yes, you need to have iMagick installed. You can check if it's installed using phpinfo(). And for example code, I'd have a look at Mikko's blog section for iMagick

[woodeye]

Actually, my syntax is correct for ImageMagick, but I had a space before the word "convert", as soon as I removed that space, it worked!

Thanks for the Blog link, I'll read through that more, but unfortunately my server doesn't have IMagick on it, so I have to send command-line commands.

Thanks again!
Brian