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<h1 class="refname">Imagick::appendImages</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL imagick 2.0.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">Imagick::appendImages</span> — <span class="dc-title">Append a set of images</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type"><a href="class.imagick.html" class="type Imagick">Imagick</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>Imagick::appendImages</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$stack</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
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Append a set of images into one larger image.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-imagick.appendimages-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">stack</code></em></span>
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Whether to stack the images vertically.
By default (or if <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> is specified) images are stacked left-to-right.
If <em><code class="parameter">stack</code></em> is <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong>, images are stacked top-to-bottom.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns Imagick instance on success.
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<div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-imagick.appendimages-errors">
<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
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Throws ImagickException on error.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-imagick.appendimages-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="methodname"><strong>Imagick::appendImages()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">/* Create new imagick object */<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">Imagick</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">/* create red, green and blue images */<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">newImage</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">100</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">50</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"red"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">newImage</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">100</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">50</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"green"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">newImage</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">100</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">50</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"blue"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">/* Append the images into one */<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">resetIterator</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$combined </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendImages</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">true</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">/* Output the image */<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$combined</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">setImageFormat</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"png"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">header</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type: image/png"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$combined</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
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<img src="images/c0d23d2d6769e53e24a1b3136c064577-floodfillpaint_intermediate.png" alt="Output of example : Imagick::appendImages()" width="100" height="150" />
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