RE: [PHP] thumbnail of webpage

True, you'd have to run it on the web client end, but you can run IE on the server to access the HTML the server is err..serving. The server can also be a client, in other words. So your server can generate a thumbnail of what it's serving out by acting as a client for a second. As long as their security allows them to execute IE or interface with it and possibly the windows API. There are complexities, but it's the path I would explore if I had to create my own thumbnailing system (in the absence of some quick and easy utility that already did it). -TG > -----Original Message----- > From: raditha dissanayake [mailto:jabber@raditha.com] > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:28 PM > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] thumbnail of webpage > > > Gryffyn, Trevor wrote: > > >Some great recommendations, but my first thought is > wondering if you can > >interface with IE via COM or something. Or open the URL > via IE and use > >the Windows API to do a PRINT SCREEN or ALT-PRINT SCREEN to > capture it > >to the clipboard and do something funny that way. > > > > > > > Good ideas but then you would need to run PHP on the client > side and not on the server (assuming of course that the original > poster is not runnig his server on an OS that does not have any > security features). > > There was a similar question on 'the list' and someone suggested and > image magick would be able to do this. > > > -- > Raditha Dissanayake.