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PHP ImageMagick on Azure Web Apps

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Not all versions of the Windows Application are compatible with the PHP Library Versions. Many thanks to Adrian Calinescu for providing version information. He has made a GitHub repo which you can download and install located here: https://github.com/snobu/php-imagick-webapps

These steps are for PHP v5.6, ImageMagick PHP Library 3.3.0RC2 and ImageMagick Windows Application 6.9.2.7.

Resource Link
1 ImageMagick 3.3.0RC25.6 Non Thread Safe (NTS) x86 https://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/imagick/3.3.0rc2/php_imagick-3.3.0rc2-5.6-nts-vc11-x86.zip
2 ImageMagick Windows Application 6.9.2.7 https://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-6.9.2-7-Q16-x86-dll.exe

Follow these instructions to install ImageMagick on Azure Web Apps.

Download/Install

1. Download the resources above.

2. Install ImageMagick for Windows on your local computer.  Uncompress ImageMagick 3.3.0rc2 NTS x86.

DLL’s

3. Create directories on your web server using FTP or SCM (websitename.SCM.azurewebsites.net)

      a. Create d:\home\site\coders6.9.2 (will contain coder DLLs from the Windows Application)

      b. Create d:\home\site\imagick3.3.0rc2 (will contain DLLs from PHP Imagick Library)

4. Copy DLLs

     a. Copy CORE DLLs from C:\Program Files (x86)\ImageMagick-6.9.2-Q16 to your Azure Web App location d:\home\site\coders6.9.2\

     b. Copy DLLs from C:\Program Files (x86)\ImageMagick-6.9.2-Q16\modules\coders to d:\home\site\coders6.9.2\

     c. Copy ALL FILES from php_imagick-3.3.0rc2-5.6-nts-vc11-x86.zip to d:\home\site\imagick3.3.0rc2\

Environment Configuration

5. Copy d:\local\Config\PHP-5.6.10\php.ini to d:\home\site\php56.ini

Add the following attributes:
extension=d:\home\site\imagick3.3.0rc2\php_imagick.dll

 6. Within d:\home\site, create applicationHost.xdt with the contents below:

<?xml version="1.0"?><configuration xmlns:xdt="https://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform"><system.webServer><fastCgi><application fullPath="D:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.6\php-cgi.exe" xdt:Locator="Match(fullPath)"><environmentVariables><environmentVariable name="PHPRC" xdt:Locator="Match(name)" value="d:\home\site\php56.ini" xdt:Transform="SetAttributes(value)" /></environmentVariables></application></fastCgi><runtime xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing"><environmentVariables xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing"><add name="PATH" value="%PATH%d:\home\site\imagick3.3.0rc2\;" xdt:Locator="Match(name)" xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" /><add name="MAGICK_HOME" value="d:\home\site\imagick3.3.0rc2\" xdt:Locator="Match(name)" xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" /><add name="MAGICK_CODER_MODULE_PATH" value="d:\home\site\coders6.9.2\" xdt:Locator="Match(name)" xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" /></environmentVariables></runtime></system.webServer></configuration>

Verify Installation

7. Restart the server and check phpinfo();

Test ImageMagick

8. Here’s a piece a code snippet which you can use for testing:

 <?php/* Create a new imagick object */$im = new Imagick();/* Create new image. This will be used as fill pattern */$im->newPseudoImage(50, 50, "gradient:red-black");/* Create imagickdraw object */$draw = new ImagickDraw();/* Start a new pattern called "gradient" */$draw->pushPattern('gradient', 0, 0, 50, 50);/* Composite the gradient on the pattern */$draw->composite(Imagick::COMPOSITE_OVER, 0, 0, 50, 50, $im);/* Close the pattern */$draw->popPattern();/* Use the pattern called "gradient" as the fill */$draw->setFillPatternURL('#gradient');/* Set font size to 52 */$draw->setFontSize(52);/* Annotate some text */$draw->annotation(20, 50, "Hello World!");/* Create a new canvas object and a white image */$canvas = new Imagick();$canvas->newImage(350, 70, "white");/* Draw the ImagickDraw on to the canvas */$canvas->drawImage($draw);/* 1px black border around the image */$canvas->borderImage('black', 1, 1);/* Set the format to PNG */$canvas->setImageFormat('gif');/* Output the image */header("Content-Type: image/gif");echo $canvas;

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2015
    Hey...Thanks for sharing Installation & Configuration guideline. Keep going :) http://www.technource.com/

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2016
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  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2016
    If you have Composer installed, I found I had to edit the Composer applicationHost.xdt instead of creating a new applicationHost.xdt file

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2017
    I know this is pretty old at this point, but it's still the best resource out there to get ImageMagick working on Azure web apps. Unfortunately, I can't get PDF support. Your screenshot shows it supported, yet you don't have any instructions on how to add Ghostscript. I created a bin folder and copied both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the DLL/LIB/EXE files and added it to the path, but it isn't picked up. Of course there could be a version incompatibility somewhere. What else do I need to do? I really wish there was just a nice extension to add this support to a web app!Azure Web App 32-bitPHP: 5.6IMagick: 3.3.0RC2ImageMagick: 6.9.1-2 (from the Github repo)Ghostscript: 9.21

  • Anonymous
    April 17, 2017
    I guess there's no way to fix PNG, right?

  • Anonymous
    April 18, 2017
    I've just updated the madness here - https://github.com/snobu/php-imagick-webapps - to work with PHP 7.0+

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2017
    Hi all i just configure the imagick on azure web app but still i am facing some problems i need to convert the svg to png with the help of imagick extension but i can't find the path for conversion of the files locally its ok