In imagick 3.x (have not checked 2.x), this returns an imagemagick object and not a boolean.
<?php
$image = new Imagick('myanimation.gif');
$image = $image->optimizeImageLayers(); //Does not return a boolean!
$image->writeImage('optimized.gif');
(PECL imagick 2.0.0)
Imagick::optimizeImageLayers — Removes repeated portions of images to optimize
Compares each image the GIF disposed forms of the previous image in the sequence. From this it attempts to select the smallest cropped image to replace each frame, while preserving the results of the animation. This method is available if Imagick has been compiled against ImageMagick version 6.2.9 or newer.
Returns TRUE on success.
Throws ImagickException on error.
Example #1 Using Imagick::optimizeImageLayers()
Reading, optimizing and writing a GIF image
<?php
/* create new imagick object */
$im = new Imagick("test.gif");
/* optimize the image layers */
$im->optimizeImageLayers();
/* write the image back */
$im->writeImages("test_optimized.gif", true);
?>
In imagick 3.x (have not checked 2.x), this returns an imagemagick object and not a boolean.
<?php
$image = new Imagick('myanimation.gif');
$image = $image->optimizeImageLayers(); //Does not return a boolean!
$image->writeImage('optimized.gif');