step-by-step instructions for installing IMAGEMAGICK on WAMP?

Question

This has been driving me mental, for hours and hours now..

There don't seem to be any concise tutorials/walk throughs for installing ImageMagick on WAMP for use with PHP.

I've tried dozens of combinations of their binary releases with different php extension dll files. I can get imagemagick working fine from the command line and i can get it to show as ticked in the WAMP extensions, but cant actually use it.

Has anyone come accross a good guide for installing this ball ache piece of software?!!!

i've followed http://www.knowledge-transfers.com/it/installing-imagemagick-on-windows-setup-imagick-on-php with no luck...

Answer 1

I've never used WAMP but I have found that sometimes installing PHP extensions on Windows I need to ensure that any dll's that the extension relies on is in the Windows system PATH. If there is more than the one dll packaged with the imagemagick extension, try adding the directory that the dll's reside in to the Windows system PATH then REBOOT (to ensure that the web server gets a copy of the NEW environment).