ImageMagick and GD Library
Learn more about ImageMagick and GD Library to discover why they are currently present on almost every server.
If you would want to have dynamic images on your site, the machine where you host it needs to have the correct software for this. As opposed to using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images via a script app. All these things are doable through ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that could be set up on a web server and which work with a wide range of widely used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you could use images with any web-based application you want, irrespective of the language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will allow you to work with more than one hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting
All the
Linux cloud packages that we provide 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 can be found with all of the PHP versions that we supply since we support PHP 4 and several versions of PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. Regardless if you work with a tailor-made script, one of the applications that you can install from the Hepsia Control Panel or some third-party app that you find online, 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 graphs and images in real time as long as the script features such functionality.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your brand new
semi-dedicated server account shall be created, which means that you'll be able to employ all the features of any script application which needs any of these two libraries to manage images, like Joomla
™, WordPress, photo galleries, forums, and so on. In case you are a web developer, you are able to write the program code yourself since we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To supply you with even more options with regards to what sort of apps you can run, we support a variety of PHP releases - 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. GD and ImageMagick will be enabled for each of them, so the software environment on the servers will never limit your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can host.