If you would like to have dynamic images on your internet site, the web server in which you host it ought to have the appropriate software for that. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a website visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images via a script application. All of these things are feasible via ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which could be set up on a hosting server and which work with a lot of widely used scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you may use images with any web-based app you'd like, no matter 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 a hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and activated as standard on our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the Linux hosting that you select when you join us. This will allow you to build multimedia websites without worrying about any technical limitations on our end. When you have a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar site which engages your guests in some way, you'll be able to provide them with a number of editing options for the photos which they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, which will give you many different opportunities regarding what content you're able to offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not experience any problems to run any kind of script app which requires these libraries in order to function properly. Numerous apps allow you to use graphs and images - forums, content management systems, blog platforms, etc, therefore when you use such software on our end, you can use all of its attributes - automatically generated thumbnails for images linked to a forum reply or personalized avatars on a social network website, for example. The two libraries are available with all the PHP versions that you'll be able to select through the Hepsia 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.