ImageMagick and GD Library
Learn what ImageMagick is as well as what the GD Library is used for and why they're so popular.
If you want to have dynamic images on your website, the machine where you host it should have the appropriate software for that. As opposed to using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images through a script application. All of these things are feasible via ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software which could be set up on a server and that work with a great number of popular scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you can use images with any web-based app that you would like, irrespective of the language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with over 100 different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting
All of the cloud website hosting plans which we offer are set up on our revolutionary cloud platform and since both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on it, your script apps will be able to use these software suites any time. The libraries can be found with all PHP versions that we offer because we support PHP 4 and multiple versions of PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. No matter if you work with a custom script, one of the applications that you can install through the Hepsia Control Panel or some third-party application that you find on the web, you're able to build feature-rich multi-media sites, including image galleries or socially-oriented portals where both you and the visitors will be able to work with graphs and / or images in real time as long as the script offers such functionality.