Posted by J.O. Aho on 11/07/05 10:57

Gary wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm sure this question has been asked before as it seems quite an
> obvious one. However
> even after a deep trawl I can't seem to find a way forward.
>
> I have a some PHP dynamically generated web pages that are dished up
> via a forum
> backend. What I would like to do is grab a screen dump of these pages.
>
> I've looked at wget but this comes in binary form. I'm sure my web
> hosting company are
> not going to want me (or will give me the means) to compile it on their
> lynux/unix OS.

You could make a simple php script that just opens the URL you want to take a
"screenshot" off and then save the output to a file, this of course require
that the file open functionalities in php allows you to open URLs. This way
you get the same result as using wget which are quite often installed on *nix
systems, but of course could be removed from systems where it's not needed or
could increase a security risk.

By the way, what is lynux? is it the new name of microsofts latest product?


//Aho

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