ImageMagick and GD Library
What is ImageMagick used for? What is the GD Library? What lies behind their worldwide popularity?
If you would want to have dynamic images on your website, the web server in which you host it needs to have the suitable software for this. As an alternative to using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a site visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images through a script app. All of these things are feasible via ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software which could be installed on a hosting server and which work with a large amount of popular scripting languages such as: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you could use images with any web-based application you want, irrespective of the language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with more than one hundred different image formats such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting
All the cloud plans which we provide are set up on our modern cloud platform and since both GD Library and ImageMagick are present on it, your script applications can use these software suites any time. The libraries are accessible with all of the PHP versions that we provide because we support PHP 4 and several versions of PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. No matter if you employ a tailor-made script, one of the applications that you'll be able to install through the Hepsia Control Panel or some third-party application that you find on the web, you are able to build feature-rich interactive websites, for instance image galleries or socially-oriented portals where both you and your visitors can work with graphs as well as images in real time provided the script offers such functionality.