Unable to work on ImageMagick properly on Windows xampp

Question

I read all the questions before posting this . I am trying to install ImageMagick on my local system Windows 7.It gets installed without But when i try using it to crop images I get NoDecodeDelegateForThisImageFormat . I am running Apache/2.4.3 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1c PHP/5.4.7

This is what i did

• I installed ImageMagick ImageMagick-6.8.9-8-Q16-x86-dll.exe (I tried 6.8.1 and 6.7 also)
• I got the dll from http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick/3.1.2/windows TS for PHP 5.4
• Updated php.ini
• The server started with out problem .
• I checked via cmd the ImageMagick is working fine.
• phpinfo() ImageMagick number of supported formats: 0

I tried many DLL's but none is working i need a solution to this .

Also phpinfo keeps on showing ImageMagick version:ImageMagick 6.8.8-4 Q16 x86 2014-01-29 even when i uninstalled it / updated it .

identify -version

Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-8 Q16 x86 2014-08-26 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLC Features: DPC Modules OpenMP Delegates: bzlib cairo freetype jbig jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr pangocairo png ps rsv g tiff webp xml zlib

I am trying to open Jpg.

Answer 1

ImageMagick inside php is a really different from the standalone cmd version.

So, you need not only the php_imagic.dll connected to your php.ini . But also the CORE_RL_*_.dll files in the Apache bin directory. This will enable the readers. Now you need the ENcoders. These are obtained from the standalone installation and located in [ImageMagick install dir]\\modules\\coders . Copy them to Apache's bin directory as well.

Now check the phpinfo();

The downside of this is that you need to match dll's from Standalone version to the one that is Compiled in the php-extension.