Hello, I cannot think of anyway you could do this natively in PHP without using some kind of exterior library. You could always write a PHP extension to render HTML, then create a snapshot from that, but that would be a lot of work. I was searching around and found this, http://www.babysimon.co.uk/khtml2png/index.html you could use that, or even create a wrapper extension for it. "Delos" <liberache@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:20050324184122.61264.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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? -- Regards, Matthew Fonda http://www.mfonda.info -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php