Posted by Joe Harman on 03/25/05 20:46

check out http://www.whois.sc

they do exactley what you are talking about..... i don't think you can
make PHP do this.. there maybe someway to do it with imagemagik....
but i am not even sure about that also...

here is a free ware program that does it.. but you have to do it manually
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/web2pic.html

good luck! let us know what you find!
Joe


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:47:43 +0200, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:48:50 +0200, delos <liberache@hot.ee> wrote:
> > i would like to produce a script that can make an image ("screenshot")
> > based only on the site url. so that i enter an URL and php makes the
> > picture.
> >
> > can such a thing be done by php? if not, maybe by some other language?
> >
>
> You would need a program that would take the HTML code that you
> receive and then know how to format it. In other words, a web browser.
>
> I know that this is possible because as far back as three years ago I
> was getting spam that included a screenshot of my site. I thought it
> was rather cool- the screenshot showed the site optimized for a 1024-
> width screen and I had at that point only ever seen my own site on a
> 800*600 15 inch monitor.
>
> You would probably need to combine about 3 tools to do this: a
> browser, a screen shot utility, and THEN php. php cannot transform the
> html code into a 'webpage'. Unless, hehehe, you want to write a
> browser in php.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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