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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:48:50 +0200, delos <liberache@xxxxxx> 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 > > http://English-Lyrics.com/ > http://Song-Lyriks.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
