note 109459 added to imagick.getimagepixelcolor

I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who have been wondering, "How you manage to produce a human readable output of this operation?" $image = new Imagick('testimage.jpg'); $x = 1; $y = 1; $pixel = $image->getImagePixelColor($x, $y); If you try to print an output of the $pixel object, you get nothing. You have to use one of the ImagickPixel operations to get back a value. You can do either of the following: $colors = $pixel->getColor(); print_r($colors); // produces Array([r]=>255,[g]=>255,[b]=>255,[a]=>1); $pixel->getColorAsString(); // produces rgb(255,255,255); The place where I was getting hung up was how to get the data that was captured in the Imagick::getImagePixelColor operation into an ImagickPixel object. I was trying to find ways of passing the value to a newly instantiated ImagickPixel object. Well, it appears that once you've captured your color data using Imagick::getImagePixelColor, what's returned IS an ImagickPixel object! As a further note, you do not need to convert this to a human readable format if you just want to take a color sample at a single point on your image to plug into another operation. For example, if you wanted to perform a flood fill effect on a certain color you could plug in the instance of the ImagickPixel object directly. The following fill perform a flood fill effect at coordinates 1,1 on your image using Green as the fill color and the color sampled at 1,1 as the target color to fill. $hexcolor = '#00ff00'; $fuzz = '4000'; $x = 1; $y = 1; $pixel = $image->getImagePixelColor($x, $y); $image->floodfillPaintImage($hexcolor, $fuzz, $pixel, $x, $y, false); ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 99.52.202.94 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/imagick.getimagepixelcolor.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/109459 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109459/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109459/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109459/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109459/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109459/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109459/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109459 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/109459 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php