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Archive for September, 2009

Imagick and Gmagick builds available for Windows

Sep 19

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Imagick, PHP stuff | 15 Comments

The new Windows build page http://valokuva.org/magick/ contains builds for both Imagick and Gmagick. All builds are done using VC9 and PHP 5.3.

ImageMagick builds are QuantumDepth 16 (default).
GraphicsMagick builds are QuantumDepth 8 (default).

Please note that these builds won’t work with the official PHP.net binaries which are compiled using VC6.

Edit: Pierre corrected me that there are official VC9 builds of PHP available at http://windows.php.net/download/

New and old extensions

Sep 12

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else, PHP stuff | 4 Comments

I’ve been fairly busy lately writing a few new PHP extensions. Here is a short introduction of each one of them and what they can do:

1. tokyo_tyrant

This is an extension to connect to the Tokyo Tyrant key value store. It supports the normal key value API and the table API. The feature-set should match quite closely what Tokyo Tyrant client libraries expose. The first version of this extension has been released in PECL.

2. zbarcode

This is the latest extension under works: it wraps ImageMagick and ZBar libraries and provides an OO API for scanning barcodes from images. It is currently under heavy development but hopefully it will be in PECL later on.

3. dmtx

Another barcode extension. Reads and writes data matrices (2D barcode). The API would need some refactoring but it seems to be working fine as it is.

Hardware failure

Sep 12

Posted by Mikko Koppanen in Everything else | No Comments

Hi,

my blog has been down for about the last week now because of problems with the server hardware. I am trying to provision new hardware and restore the service back to normal as soon as possible. Currently things are running from a backup VPS so the site might be a bit slow from time to time.