ImageMagick and GD Library
Learn what ImageMagick is and just what the GD Library can be used for and why they are so well liked.
If you want to have dynamic images on your website, the machine where you host it must have the correct software for that. Instead of using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images through a script application. All these things are possible with ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that could be installed on a web server and which work with a large amount of widespread scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you may use images with any web-based app that you'd like, regardless what language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with over 100 different image formats such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting
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Linux shared web hosting services which we provide are generated on our cutting-edge cloud platform and due to the fact that both GD Library and ImageMagick are present on it, your script apps can use these software suites at any time. The libraries are available with all the PHP versions that we supply 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 will be able to install from the Hepsia Control Panel or a third-party application that you find on the worldwide web, you will be able to build feature-rich interactive sites, like image galleries or socially-oriented portals where both you and your visitors will be able to work with graphs as well as images in real time provided the script offers such options.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to execute any script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create charts or use images, since both are set up and enabled by default on the cloud website hosting platform where all of the
semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries as they shall be accessible at all times. In this way, you've got lots of options in respect to what functions both you and your website visitors can employ, regardless if you are writing the site code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and set up some app that you've found on the web. You're able to take advantage of all the widespread formats for the photos which you upload.