Ok, I searched this time, and got 8 pages of threads, mostly around why captcha was non compliant for blind people.

I sure as heck hope there is an option in the advanced search, next time I look, to ignore replies on the same thread.

ANYHOW...

Trying to get ImageMagick to throw me the CAPTCHA stuff.
All I get is the red X.

Paths are in as c:\ImageMagick\convert.exe and mogrify.exe.

Have done nothing to php yet, do I need to?
I see no sign of that, and there is nothing in the docs anywhere.

Ideas?

First thing would be to make sure that it is ImageMagick6 that you have installed and not 5. You don't need to do any PHP changes for ImageMagick to work, but you do need to make sure that PHP has the permission to use the exec() function.

A quick way to test if it's setup properly, is to call it directly. When you're logged in as an admin, bring up this page:

ubbthreads.php?ubb=captcha&t=im&test=1

I believe you need to point to the imagemagick .exe file in your php.ini as well, eh?

ugh, it's been too long since I ran IIS - I need to set it up on my home computer

I don't think so Allen. The way we're doing it, we just call the convert.exe via exec() so we're actually executing the convert.exe, so php shouldn't need to know anything about it.

Ok, test run, and all I get is a blank screen, with a red X on an image.

Looked for any reference to exec() in the php.ini and can find none.

v6.3.3.6 is the file version of convert.exe.

I had it working before, for a photogallery online, and just installed the latest version, prior to installing threads. (trying to avoid problems, not create them)

Just did the quick check based on IM6's text files, and it converted and displayed a file for me...

Hmm, one last check, and we might need a support ticket for this. Can you check and make sure that your cache directory is writeable. ImageMagick tries to write to this directory to temporarily store the image that it created.

Yup, and there's about 20 files in there right now. (various php files)

is there any other way to quickly script a php test of imagemagick?

Something like this should work to test. If it runs into a problem it should output the error, however this doesn't appear to always be the case. This script works for me, but if I make the path bad it doesn't show any error on my windows test box for some reason.



You'll want to change the paths above. Both to the convert.exe executable, and also to where it will output the test.gif file, it must be a writeable directory.

Had to edit a bit to get it to run, but can't get past this syntax error... and I'm stuck.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\Inetpub\ca.dsm.org\forums\test.php on line 6



<?php

$output = exec("C:\imagemagick\convert.exe -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 30 label:test C:\inetpub\ca.dsm.org\forums\cache\test.gif",$error);

if (sizeof($error)) {
echo "Error is " implode(' ',$error);
} // end if

?>