ImageMagick and GD Library
Uncover what ImageMagick is as well as what the GD Library can be used for and why they are so widely common.
If you would like to have dynamic images on your site, the web server in which you host it must have the proper software for that. Instead of using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images through a script application. All of these things are possible with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that can be installed on a hosting server and that work with a large amount of widely used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you can use images with any web-based application you'd like, regardless what language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries shall allow you to work with more than 100 different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
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Linux shared hosting that we offer are set up on our leading-edge cloud platform and due to the fact that both GD Library and ImageMagick are present on it, your script applications can use these software suites any time. The libraries are available with all PHP versions that we provide because we support PHP 4 and a few different versions of PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. No matter if you employ a custom script, one of the applications that you'll be able to install through the Hepsia Control Panel or a third-party application that you find on the worldwide web, you'll be able to build feature-rich interactive websites, including image galleries or socially-oriented portals where both you and the visitors can work with graphs and / or images in real time provided that the script offers such functionality.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Because 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 script app which requires these libraries to work properly. Lots of apps allow you to use graphs and images - message boards, content management systems, blog platforms, etcetera, which means that when you employ such software on our end, you will be able to use all of its attributes - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures linked to a forum reply or customizable avatars on a social network website, for example. Both libraries will be available with all of the PHP releases that you are able to select from 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.
