If you would want to have dynamic images on your website, the machine where you host it should have the suitable software for that. As opposed to using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a website visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images via a script application. All these things are possible via ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that could be installed on a server and which work with a large amount of popular scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you could use images with any web-based app that you'd like, no matter what language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will enable you to work with over 100 different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated as standard on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the cloud website hosting plan that you select when you join us. This will help you build multimedia websites without having to worry about any tech restrictions on our end. In case you own a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while when you've got a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you can provide them with a number of editing solutions for the images which they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, which will give you numerous opportunities as to what content you're able to offer on the website.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Since both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not have any problems to run any sort of script app that requires these libraries in order to work efficiently. A lot of apps allow you to work with charts and pictures - community forums, cms, blog platforms, etc, which means that when you employ such software on our end, you are able to use all of its options - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures attached to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network website, for example. Both libraries are provided with all PHP releases that you'll be able to select through the Hepsia website 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.