how do you...

[clanstyles]

How would you go about taking screenshots of other sites with PHP?

[l0ve2hat3]

this will store all html. but idk about actual screen shots

<?
$url = "http://www.phpfreaks.com";
$str = file_get_contents($url);
?>

[clanstyles]

yeah.. so how would I take a screen shot of it? like Alexa.com does for all its sites.

[discomatt]

http://www.zubrag.com/articles/create-website-snapshot-thumbnail.php

[redarrow]

You download a free snap shop shell program then use the

exec() php function to take the snap shots very simple .....

[clanstyles]

hey,

I don't really want to depend on a shh program. php dcripys plz.

[discomatt]

Php whats?

 

You won't be able to do with with PHP alone. Sorry.

 

It's possible, but you pretty much have to grab the source and every image on the site, parse locations of elements and use gd to compile them onto an image and then downsize to a thumbanil. Don't ask me how to do this because it is both complicated and tedious. You're pretty much going to be making a browser in PHP.

 

The only logical solution is to run an application, or have a 3rd party run that app for you

[clanstyles]

well I do c++ so using vmware, I could just create a small linux app to do this..

 

great...I thought you could.