Clueless

[rantsh]

Here's a good one for gurus. I want to develop a class, library or script that takes a screenshot of another site in real time, for instance, let's say you're googling for phpfreaks, instead of getting a text link I'd like my site to show a screenshot of the main page and show it to the user.

 

I once saw a library like this developed in PERL by a Venezuelan company but I can't remember the URL of the site that used it.... as soon as I remember I'll post so you can all get a better idea of what I require

[Jessica]

Alexa does this, as do many other reviewing sites, and http://browsershots.org/

 

I'm not aware of a way to do it in PHP, what browsershots.org does is add it to a list and then they have dedicated machines which automate the screenshots.

[HuggieBear]

The module in Perl your thinking of was probably either Win32::CaptureIE or Win32::Screenshot

 

I believe they use ImageMagick.

 

I don't know if it's been done in PHP but I'll have a scout about.

 

Regards

Huggie

[rantsh]

Alexa does this, as do many other reviewing sites, and http://browsershots.org/

 

this is a COOL website, although, I don't know if maybe opening a socket and then getting a way to read the code and convert it to html, and then trying to somehow have php convert it to an image is the way to, I must say I'm clueless... PHP is a very VERY powerful language so there must be a way...