PHP Imagick class working when called from Web Server but not from Command Line

Question

I'm running into a very frustrating problem when using Imagick in PHP.

Simple code:

$image = '1551660111_7801.jpg';
$imageBG = new Imagick();
$imageBG->readImage($image);
$imageBG->resizeImage('1280', '720', 1, 1, true);
$imageBG->writeImage ('test.jpg');

When I run this via Chrome, no issues, generates the new file.

But when I run through terminal like this

php test.php

I get this error

Fatal error: Class 'Imagick' not found in ../test.php on line 8

Answer 1

Check your PHP version on CLI and on web server.

on cli:

php -v

on web server open phpinfo(); command in some *.php file. It is possible that you have installed ImageMagick as PHP 5.6 extension and it is used by web server, but you CLI php version is PHP7

Answer 2

The path to the included file has to fit for both calls. Make sure you call the test.php from the same path as a web browser would.