Imagick is a native php extension to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API.

To install imagick you will require root access to server.

Refer to following steps to the installation.

1) Download source file


# cd /usr/local/src/
and download latest version of imagick from PECL :: Package :: imagick :: download
example: wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.0.1.tgz

2) extract file and compiling it

tar -zxvf imagick-*
cd imagick-3.0.1
phpize

./configure

make

make install
3) Now edit php.ini and add imagick extension.

extension="imagick.so"

4) To verify if installation is successful, you can create a phpinfo file and you should see imagick enabled.