note 21534 deleted from ref.image by victor

if your reading this part of the manual you might actually be looking for some help on making imagemagick work with php. i did anyway. i had a really hard time figuring out why i couldnt get identify to work properly. it seemed that when i call it (with exec) i got a very strange error - unless (and this is the really strange part) i sat the switch -verbose. eventually i figured out that identify for some reason makes a temp file in the executing dir, when running (but NOT if its in verbose-mode ?!?) ... therefore you have to change to a dir where you have writing access (like /var/tmp/) the code below works : $cmd = "cd /var/tmp; /usr/local/bin/identify -format " $cmd .= " \"%m\" ".$file; echo "<B>".$cmd."</B>\n"; $type = exec($cmd); echo "image is of type=".$type;