If you want to have dynamic images on your site, the machine where you host it ought to have the appropriate software for this. Instead of using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images dependant upon the device a site visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images using a script app. All these things are feasible with ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software that can be installed on a server and that work with a great number of frequently used scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you may use images with any web-based app you'd like, regardless what language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will enable you to work with over one hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform, therefore regardless of which of our hosting services you purchase, both applications will be available and activated as standard for your brand new account. They will be a part of the software environment for your websites irrespective of the PHP version that you select since we provide a few different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries in order to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Based on the type of your website, you can also provide many different options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to run any script app that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or use images, since both are set up and activated as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you change the PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they shall be available all the time. This way, you have numerous options in respect to what attributes you and your site visitors can use, regardless if you are writing the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some application that you've discovered on the web. You will be able to employ all the widespread formats for the images which you upload.