[TYPO3-dev] PHP's extension "imagick" not used in TYPO3 CMS

[Michael Schams]

On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 09:53 +0100, Helmut Hummel wrote:

> > I always wondered, why TYPO3 CMS does not use PHP's native extension
> > "imagick" [1] to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API, but
> > executes ImageMagick's binaries from the operating system instead.
>
> Both true. If anything we should make use of a library which abstracts 
> the concrete implementation of image transformation for us.

I dream of a CMS which does not require calling external binaries.

> Imagine might be a good choice, as the Neos folks already have experience
> with it.

Ah! I did not know that.

> One last note on using a PHP extension: imagine you want to create a 
> thumbnail of a 1GB PDF. It very likely could be that the PHP extensions 
> needs to load up the whole file into memory [...]

Good point.


Cheers
Michael