What alternative approaches can be taken to work with BMP files in PHP if the standard GD library functions do not support this format?

The standard GD library functions in PHP do not support BMP files, so an alternative approach would be to use a third-party library like Imagick or ImageMagick to work with BMP files. These libraries have built-in support for a wide range of image formats, including BMP. 

// Example using Imagick to convert a BMP file to a PNG file
$imagick = new Imagick('input.bmp');
$imagick->setImageFormat('png');
$imagick->writeImage('output.png');
$imagick->clear();
$imagick->destroy();

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