Why isn't ImageMagick working in this script?

Question

I'm trying to make ImageMagick work in a PHP script. On the command-line, it works fine. I guessed it was maybe due to convert not being detected because ImageMagick is installed in the C:\\xampp folder. What could be going wrong?

<?php
$path ='C:/xampp/';


$image ='_media/4055-Beckman-Lead-App/client/fpo.pdf';
$png ='_media/4055-Beckman-Lead-App/client/Capture.PNG';

if(file_exists($png)){

    echo $png;
    exec($path.'convert'. $png .'_media/4055-Beckman-Lead-App/client/fpo.png');
}
else {

    echo "file doesn't exist";
}

Answer 1

You need a space between convert and the first PNG file name, and between the first and second PNG file names:

exec($path . 'convert ' . $png . ' _media/4055-Beckman-Lead-App/client/fpo.png');

The . operator in PHP just sticks two strings together, without adding extra space.