Posted by Richard Lynch on 03/29/05 09:16

On Thu, March 24, 2005 10:48 am, delos said:
> 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?

I don't THINK anybody mentioned the GD folks' program that does this
called, errrr, "webthumb"???

You'd have to http://php.net/exec it

And your server would have to have X and a browser installed, which is not
super common on web servers.

Or you might be able to hack something up on a home machine to screenshot
the sites you want in a cron job and upload the images...

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