Hi Aaron

Why not use the iMagick extension for PHP instead of running a shell
command?


>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Howdy all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to throw together a small image resizing app that will always 
>>> run
>>> on a local WAMP installation for personal use. (Windows XP Pro).
>>>
>>> I have just installed ImageMagick on the machine to test image processing
>>> using the CLI as I have found that using GD through PHP is a bit slow.
>>>
>>> I have this simple command:
>>> convert "C:\IMAGES\Holding\*.JPG" -resize 600 "C:\Image\file1.jpg"
>>>
>>> Works fine when run from cmd. But when I try to run it in exec or
>>> shell_exec, nothing.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas what this would be or know of a way to get 
>>> some
>>> sort of debugging info for what might be going on?
>>
>> convert needs to be executable by the Web user, I'd have to look up
>> what that Windows user is usually called. Thats how much I know it.
>>
>> Admittedly I had the same problem recently, couldn't resolve it and
>> made a web service on a linux server ;) I was calling irfanview
>> however.
>>
>> HTH, Jochen
>>
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