Re: IMagick confusion

First of all .. always be careful with tainted data. Like when you $picture = $_GET['PICTURE']; be aware that this could be a security risk one day an ImageMagick exploid is circulating. At the first glance I saw a syntactical thingy that might cause problems .. case default: break; In PHP switch for default this way ... switch ($statement) { case 1: // do something break; default: //do something else } then you forgot a semicolon $orientation = $image->getImageProperty("exif:Orientation"); // <--- ; added after that I got your script running. Note: At least turn error reporting on during debugging etc. All error-reporting behavior can be modified at any level, so if you are on a shared host or otherwise unable to make changes to files such as php.ini, httpd.conf, or .htaccess, simply ... ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL | E_STRICT); ini_set('display_errors', 'OFF');