Enable SSH in PHP?

[alkafy]

After installing the imagemagick library, the following will work in a Terminal window, but not through a php script using exec(), shell_exec() or system() in XAMPP:

for i in *.pdf;
do
convert "$i" -compress zip ../compressed/"$i"
done

My solution would be to SSH with php into localhost and run the commands, but I can't figure out how to install the libssh2 libraries for XAMPP. Any help?

Edit: I need to use pdftotext as well, which doesn't seem to come with XAMPP like imagemagick does.

[trippeggs]

maybe try this?:

http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/