On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 16:17 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > Rob, I agree, but you are suggesting is khtml2png which is cool, perfect, fantastic, but it's not PHP, isn't it? > > You ask me: I want a snap via PHP > I reply: well, I don't think such thing exists: a render engine entirely written in PHP and GD2 > > Maybe we should create one ... > > Regards > > > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:40:47 -0400 > > From: robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To: an_red@xxxxxxxxxxx > > CC: reseasoul@xxxxxxxxx; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Create a screenshot of a website > > > > Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > > > What you see is what a browser engine renders for your eyes while what you can do with PHP is a snapshot of the source code. > > > > One should remember that PHP serves quite well both as a glue language > > and as a wrapper language. There is no reason why you can't use PHP to > > create a simple lib around something like khtml2png so that the > > screenshot can be gathered on demand using simple PHP style function calls. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > -- > > http://www.interjinn.com > > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail you. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010 GD is just a library that PHP uses, in a similar way that you'd be utilising what khtml2png can do through PHP. What you just said doesn't make much sense. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
