If you want to have dynamic images on your website, 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 could have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a website visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images using a script app. All these things are doable through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which could be set up on a web server and which work with a large amount of popular scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you could use images with any web-based application you want, regardless of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will permit you to work with more than 100 different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform, so regardless of which of our hosting you acquire, both apps shall be available and enabled by default for your brand new account. They are part of the software setting for your websites irrespective of the PHP version that you pick as we offer a few different releases. Any kind of custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries so as to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. According to the type of your website, you will also be able to provide a wide range of features for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network site and many others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can run every script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or use images, since both are set up and enabled as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you upgrade the PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they'll be available all of the time. Thus, you'll have numerous alternatives in respect to what attributes both you and your site visitors can use, regardless of whether you are writing the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some app which you've found online. You can use all the widespread formats for the pictures which you upload.