Bug in constructor of Image.php

[TutanRamon]

On line 31 of Image.php, there is a reference to ImagickDriver. However, if I choose to use a different imageDriver, this line is still loaded. I don't have ImagickDriver installed, so I keep getting a class not found error. I don't have enough knowledge to fix this problem (I changed it to new GdDriver() for now, but I should be dynamic.

[lukasleitsch]

You can change the image drive before loading the image:

\Spatie\Image\Image::useImageDriver(ImageDriver::Gd)
    ->loadFile('example.jpg')

[TutanRamon]

I know, but since the constructor of Image.php has a hard reference to imagick, the use of useImageDriver doesn't have any effect. So it seems.

[lukasleitsch]

The static method useImageDriver creates a new instance of the Image class. In the next step, the default image driver will be overwritten.

https://github.com/spatie/image/blob/main/src/Image.php#L67

The useImageDriver method is the official way to change the image driver: https://github.com/spatie/image/blob/main/docs/usage/basic-usage.md#selecting-a-driver

[TutanRamon]

I know that, but if you don't have the ImagickDriver installed on your system, you will get an exception when the model is created. Probably most developers have both drivers installed so you won't notice the exception.

[websitevirtuoso]

@lukasleitsch

I am getting the same error
public static function load(string $pathToImage): static

   {
       if (! file_exists($pathToImage)) {
           throw CouldNotLoadImage::fileDoesNotExist($pathToImage);
       }

       return new static($pathToImage);
   }
   

I have this code
```
Image::useImageDriver(ImageDriver::Gd)
        ->load($tmpFilePath)->format(ImageExt::WEBP)
        ->quality(100)->optimize()->save($convertedImage);
```

According to 1 snipet. it doesn't use class properly imageDriver

According this documentation it should be
https://spatie.be/docs/image/v3/upgrading#content-working-with-the-image-object

My offre is fix in class, or create config for lib. To be able to change Driver via config.

[websitevirtuoso]

I could make it work but instead of load I had to use loadFile.

Maybe error in documentation

[Fluotonic]

There is indeed an error in the documentation! I just replaced "loadFile" with "load" and VOILÀ !!!
Thanks @websitevirtuoso :-)

[Fluotonic]

OK actually it turns out I was mistaken... this worked well locally but it's because Imagick is available. It's still broken online...