php error: Class 'Imagick' not found

Question

I am getting the error "Class 'Imagick' not found". Somehow I need to make this library accessible to php. I am using Php 5.2.6 on Fedora 8. my php_info has no mention of ImageMagick.

I have tried: yum install ImageMagick and restarted apache, which didn't work.

I also added extension=imagick.ext to my php.ini file and restarted apache, which didn't work.

Answer 1

For all to those having problems with this i did this tutorial:

How to install Imagemagick and Php module Imagick on ubuntu?

i did this 7 simple steps:

Update libraries, and packages

apt-get update 

Remove obsolete things

apt-get autoremove 

For the libraries of ImageMagick

apt-get install libmagickwand-dev 

for the core class Imagick

apt-get install imagemagick 

For create the binaries, and conections in beetween

pecl install imagick 

Append the extension to your php.ini

echo "extension=imagick.so" >> /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini 

Restart Apache

service apache2 restart 

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I found a problem. PHP searches for .so files in a folder called /usr/lib/php5/20100525, and the imagick.so is stored in a folder called /usr/lib/php5/20090626. So you have to copy the file to that folder.

Answer 2

From: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1726074

For RHEL-based i386 distributions:

yum install ImageMagick.i386 yum install ImageMagick-devel.i386 pecl install imagick echo "extension=imagick.so" > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini service httpd restart 

This may also work on other i386 distributions using yum package manager. For x86_64, just replace .i386 with .x86_64