Imagick for PHP 8

2021.02

As You probably know, we still wait for official release of imagick for php8.

So at this moment we need not official releases.

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1. Mac

For MAC installation is relay simple with homebrew

brew tap shivammathur/extensions
brew install imagick@8.0

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2. Windows

PHP	Architecture	Thread Safe	Non Thread Safe	ImageMagick
8.0.2	x64	php_imagick-3.4.4-dev x64 ts	php_imagick-3.4.4-dev x64 nts	ImageMagick-7.0.11 x64.zip
8.0.2	x86	php_imagick-3.4.4-dev x86 ts	php_imagick-3.4.4-dev x86 nts	ImageMagick-7.0.11 x86.zip

Once you downloaded the correct files:

1. Extract from php_imagick-….zip the php_imagick.dll file, and save it to the ext directory of your PHP installation
2. Extract from ImageMagick-….zip files and directory and save them to the PHP root directory (where you have php.exe), or to a directory in your PATH variable
3. Add this line to your php.ini file: extension=php_imagick.dll
4. Restart the Apache/NGINX Windows service (if applicable)

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To test if the extension works, you can run this PHP code:

<?php
$image = new Imagick();
$image->newImage(1, 1, new ImagickPixel('#ffffff'));
$image->setImageFormat('png');
$pngData = $image->getImagesBlob();
echo strpos($pngData, "\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n") === 0 ? 'Ok' : 'Failed'; 

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Versions for older PHP version as available on https://mlocati.github.io/articles/php-windows-imagick.html

Thanks for great article with examples: https://jite.eu/2021/2/21/imagick-on-php8/