ImageMagick and GD Library
Uncover what ImageMagick is and just what the GD Library is used for and why they are so well liked.
ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a web server for images to appear on a specific internet site. They allow you to execute various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so forth. These things can certainly be carried out online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the site or for the image to be resized automatically depending on the device and resolution that the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be employed with lots of web programming languages like PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not have to stick to a single language to develop your website. They work with more than a hundred formats, which includes the most popular ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting
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shared web hosting which we supply are created on our modern cloud platform and since both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on it, your script applications can use these software suites any time. The libraries are available with all of the PHP versions that we offer because we support PHP 4 and a couple of versions of PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. No matter if you use a custom script, one of the applications that you're able to install through the Hepsia Control Panel or a third-party application that you find on the web, you're able to build feature-rich multi-media websites, like image galleries or socially-oriented portals where both you and your users will be able to work with charts as well as images in real time provided the script has such options.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
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 kind of script application that requires these libraries in order to work effectively. Many applications allow you to work with graphs and images - message boards, content management systems, blog platforms, and many others, therefore in case you employ such software on our end, you can use all of its attributes - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures attached to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network site, for example. The two libraries are provided with all PHP versions which you can 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.