Imagemagick Composite Overwriting File

Question

Good day. I am new to Imagemagick, and I just wanna ask what's wrong with this code

$cmd_for_wm = "composite -gravity southeast watermark.png image.jpg image.jpg;";    
exec($cmd_for_wm);

When I run it in the terminal, it is working well, but when I incorporated it in PHP, it doesn't work. Why?

Thanks for you in advance :) Cheers

It might be a path issue. Try using absolute paths (just for testing) — Alex Tartan, Jul 24 '15 at 05:23
actually used the absolute path, but doesn't work @AlexTartan — rox, Jul 24 '15 at 05:35
Try passing the output argument to `exec` like: `$out = array(); exec($cmd, $out); print_r($out);` and post the output — Alex Tartan, Jul 24 '15 at 06:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

I've tried your example and it does "die" silently.
This, on the other hand seems to work:

$cmd_for_wm = "composite -gravity southeast watermark.png image.jpg image.jpg;";    
passthru($cmd_for_wm);

Very curious indeed. Since the main difference between exec and passthru is the output handling. The later is used for binary data.

My take on this is that passthru correctly allows composite to output the processed image (which is binary data) into the specified file.

For a detailed explanation, please see PHP - exec() vs system() vs passthru()

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