# Imagick

**URL:** <https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/imagick/42114>\
**Category:** Hosting Support\
**Created:** [February 24, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/imagick/42114 "2021-02-24T19:08:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oxy](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/oxy/32/37989_2.png) [@Oxy](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Oxy)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/imagick/42114/2 "2021-02-24T20:15:30Z")

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Hi and welcome to the forum

> [@RE: image resize functionality](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/re-image-resize-functionality/7414/2):
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> No, we have no plans to support those things. For image conversion, the GD library is available. I’ve never had to do any image manipulation code myself, but I believe GD does image resizing as well. I’m not sure why Imagick is disabled, but as far as I know the majority of shared hosting providers block it so there must be a good reason. system() and other shell command functions will never be allowed. From both security perspective (shells scripts are not affected by PHP sandboxing) and per…

> [@Website / PHP issues following PHP upgrade](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/website-php-issues-following-php-upgrade/33017/12):
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> imagick has never been installed and will not be installed. And note that it says “Warning The optional module”. It’s not an error (it’s a warning) and will not prevent you from installing WooCommerce (it’s optional). The ZIP and ZLIB modules are related. They are both part of the same underlying library, which is one of the libraries which could not be built straight away. iFastNet is working on these.

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