How to get Imagick to list available fonts

Question

I'm trying to get Imagick to list all fonts in PHP. I found the following code in the PHP.net manual:

$fontList = \Imagick::queryFonts("*");

foreach ($fontList as $fontName) {
 $output .= '<li>'. $fontName."</li>";
}

return $output;

Unfortunately this doesn't work for me. I get the following PHP error which I don't understand:

Strict Standards: Non-static method Imagick::queryfonts() should not be called statically

Anyone have a suggestion? thanks!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1392858/with-imagemagick-how-can-you-see-all-available-fonts — Progrock, Aug 18 '16 at 23:22
@Progrock You have linked to an answer about the command line ImageMagick utilities. Which is not the same as Imagick, the PHP extension. — Danack, Aug 19 '16 at 13:47
@Danack true. The Convert program is a member of the ImageMagick suite of tools. So is likely to be there. Not a pure Php solution, but may provide an alternative method. — Progrock, Aug 19 '16 at 13:57
I notice that the example above was a quote from the manual. http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.queryfonts.php — Progrock, Aug 19 '16 at 13:58
And the manual reflects the current version, not a 3 year old version of the code. — Danack, Aug 19 '16 at 14:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '16 at 13:47

You're apparently using a quite old version of Imagick. The queryFonts method was made to be callable by a static call back on Sep 25, 2013.

If you can't upgrade to a later version, you should be able to do:

$imagick = new Imagick();
$fonts = $imagick->queryfonts();

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