how do i use imagemagick with my web site?

Question

i up loaded the files from imagemagick and need to know how it works. i'll post updated info if needed.

Answer 1

You need to be running a LAMP stack (LINUX-Apache-MySQL-PHP) where PHP is compiled to make calls into the ImageMagick libraries.

It may be possible to do this with a WAMP stack (Windows-...) as well, but compiling the various pieces of software becomes more challenging.

Answer 2

ImageMagick is a ton of programs that will do wonderful things with image files.

You can access them the same as any other program that is designed to run on the server. You can use a CGI script, or a php routine, or a perl script, or javascript, C, net, python, pascal. Or you can set it up to run things in the background on a timer.

I tend to do the timer stuff. At 1am it converts a bunch of files and creates a nice thumbnail page out of it.

I also access it by a cgi shell script that is accessed thru an html "form". The people put in color preferences and text they want, and it creates a nice logo for them to order on tshirts and mugs from me.

I also access it thru some BASIC programs to generate maps for an online game that I host.

So as you can see, you can use it in many different ways.