You want to check wether an image has an alpha channel? But you have no control which Imagick Version is used?Background: Method available since ImageMagick 6.4.0Method returns boolean instead of int since 6.9.xExample:$image= new Imagick();$image->readImage($source_file);$imageHasAlphaChannel = (method_exists($image, 'getImageAlphaChannel') && ($document->getImageAlphaChannel() === \Imagick::ALPHACHANNEL_ACTIVATE || $document->getImageAlphaChannel() === true));