Re: Programmatic Browser Rendering Engine?

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> > Please Cc: me, as it's been quite some time since I posted 50 emails per > day to this list... :-^ > > > I'm interested in anybody's experience, good or bad, in what I am naively > coining as a "Programmatic Browser Rendering Engine": > > In an ideal world, it would be a PHP function definition not unlike this: > > ------------------------ > bool imagesurfto(resource image, string url, [int width, int height]); > > This function surfs to the given URL, as if a browser window the > dimensions (imagesx, imagesy) of image were opened to that URL, and places > in image a representation of what the user would see if they surfed to > that site. > You might want to look at webthumb http://www.boutell.com/webthumb/ It is a linux command line utility that creates thumbnails of webpages.