Posted by -Lost on 06/07/07 23:32

Rik wrote:
> 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.

Good point.

> Problem is: having a server capable of these things.

Exactly! Unless there is some simple exec commands to issue to a Linux
box, I wouldn't even begin to know where to start on that one.

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