ImageMagick and GD Library
Learn what ImageMagick is and just what the GD Library is used for and why they're so popular.
If you would want to have dynamic images on your internet site, the server where you host it should have the suitable software for that. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images dependant upon the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images through a script application. All these things are doable with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that can be set up on a hosting server and which work with a lot of widespread scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you may use images with any web-based app you want, no matter what language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with more than a hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting
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shared website hosting plans that we supply are set up on our revolutionary cloud platform and since both GD Library and ImageMagick are present on it, your script apps will be able to use these software suites any time. The libraries are available with all of the PHP versions that we offer since we support PHP 4 and several versions of PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. Regardless if you use a custom-made script, one of the apps which you're able to install through the Hepsia Control Panel or some third-party application that you find on the Internet, you can build feature-rich multimedia websites, for instance image galleries or socially-oriented portals where both you and your visitors will be able to work with charts and images in real time provided that the script has such functionality.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
As both GD Library and ImageMagick are set up on the cloud platform where all the
semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not experience any problems to run any sort of script application which requires these libraries in order to operate efficiently. A lot of applications allow you to work with graphs and images - community forums, content management systems, blog platforms, and many others, therefore when you work with such software on our end, you're able to use all of its functions - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures linked to a forum reply or customizable avatars on a social network site, for example. The two libraries will be available with all of the PHP versions that you will be able to select through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2.