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Posted by Rik on 06/07/07 23:19
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:29:57 +0200, -Lost <maventheextrawords@techie.com>
wrote:
> Rik wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:21:56 +0200, Prince of Code
>> <princeofcode@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How do i create a image of webpage in php? Basically what I am looking
>>> for is "Create a small image (Thumbnail) of a webpage.
>>>
>>> Let me know about your thought.
>>>
>>> Your Help is greatly appreciated !
>> With PHP?
>> Very, very tricky. PHP is not a browser, so it has no clue how to
>> handle HTML/CSS/etc., so it would have to be told this.
>> You could use some code of HTML2PS packages and take it from there.
>> Depending on how often you need this, just making a screenshot by hand
>> is often a far more costeffective solution.
>
> Hrmm... I do not think it would be too tricky.
>
> Using CURL, or fopen, or whatever other method suits you to retrieve the
> contents.
>
> Parse script tags and style declarations (making sure to look for
> @imports, et cetera).
>
> Then you could fire open a quick instance of whatever browser or COM
> instance you desire, fire a snapshot utility, save that and resample
> with PHP's image functions, GD or ImageMagick.
Well, if you have control over a server enabling you to take snapshots
this way, it could be done for sure. PHP is hardly the language to do it
with though. And you wouldn;t need to parse style-declarations etc...
You'd just open a browser on the server and take your snapshot.
Problem is: having a server capable of these things.
--
Rik Wasmus
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