RE: [PHP] thumbnail of webpage
| From: | Stefan Holmes | Date: | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:34:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] thumbnail of webpage | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: raditha dissanayake [mailto:jabber@raditha.com]
> Sent: 18 September 2004 03:22
> To: Michael Mao
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] thumbnail of webpage
>
> Michael Mao wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to capture a snapshot of a html page and save it as a
> > jpg using php?
> >
> This is something that's very very hard to do with PHP but can be easily
> done with Java.
I would guess the easiest way would be to find some external program that
retrieves the page and then renders to an image file. I don't offhand the
names of any utils that do this, but I'm sure there must be at least /one/
available!