How to install ImageMagick to use with PHP on Windows 7 (3)

Here what finally worked for me after trying almost every possible solution posted in internet:

Environment:

OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit)

IIS: 7.5

PHP: 5.5.11 (x86)

PHP.ini: VC11, x86

Download and install ImageMagick

ImageMagick-6.8.9-1-Q16-x86-dll.exe

Download corresponding .zip from Anatol suggested sources (kudos to Anatol!)

ImageMagick-6.8.9-1-vc11-x86:

Extract to a temporary folder and copy the contents of the "bin" folder inside the Imagemagick installation (c:\imagemagick) in my case overwriting files.

Download .dll and put it in the php extensions folder (I used this one)

Imagick for PHP 5.5.x Non Thread Safe from: http://www.peewit.fr/imagick/

Add the extension to php.ini with:

extension=php_imagick.dll

Save php.ini and restart IIS

Finally Image Magick information was displayed in a phpinfo(); call.

It is incredible to think to solve this problem needed to download files from 3 different locations.

Hope it helps.

Instead of using the latest version I tried downloading ImageMagick-6.7.7-5-Q16-windows-dll from here. That one actually worked with the php_imagick.dll (Imagick for PHP 5.5.x) from http://www.peewit.fr/imagick/.

This is not the latest version but it worked. (even without restarting the computer)