php passthru/exec command on Windows Apache

[phy9pas]

Hello,

I've been using IM on my unix servers fro some time, and recently I've had to use a WAMP type setup for developing locally nad I'm having trouble getting IM to work.

I've installed the Windows version of the binary and It works fine if I call it thoguh the command prompt.

Something like

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convert.exe "C:\path\to\myfile\source.jpg" "C:\path\to\myfile\destination.jpg"

I can't get it to work with a passthru (or exec) command in PHP.

I know it is finding the exe becasue if I call

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'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ImageMagick-6.6.5-Q16\\convert.exe'

It returns all of the details IM spits out by detault about the version and available commands.

But if I try and pass in files, it seems to do nothing

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var $im = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ImageMagick-6.6.5-Q16\\convert.exe';
$root = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Zend\\Apache2\\htdocs\\mysite\\httpdocs\\uploads";
$cmd = $im." '{$root}\\Source.jpg' '{$root}\\Dest.jpg'";
$result = passthru($cmd);
echo $result;

I've tried using forward slashes, single slashes,
I've tried setting root to 'uploads', './'

I've tried renaming convert.exe to IMconvert.exe

I feel like I've tried almost everything.

If anyone has any hints on how I should be referencing my image files I'd really appreciate it. Should they be relative to the convert.exe? Or to the script calling them or the site root?

Thanks in advance.

Pete

[Bonzo]

Windows needs " not '

I use XAMPP and use the same commands as I would on the server except ( ) do not need escaping and the " not ' Also you do not need the full path to convert.

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$cmd = source.jpg
exec ( " convert $cmd Dest.jpg ");

Should work if the php file and input files are in the same folder - assuming you have started Apache