how to include Imagick in PHP

Question

I have a script to delete Exif data from image, I want to use Imagick library, I setup it with :

sudo apt-get install imagemagick
sudo apt-get install php5-imagick

then I wroth this code :

$img = new Imagick($getImage);
$img->stripImage();
$img->writeImage('new.jpg');
$img->destroy();

but I get this error:

Fatal error: Class 'ImageUploader\Imagick' not found in /opt/uploader.php on line 210

any idea please ?

Answer 1

Most likely you're in a class with the namespace ImageUploader, as we can see from your error message.

Imagick by default doesn't have a namespace, so we can instantiate the class with no namespace with a backslash (\)

$img = new \Imagick($getImage);