Re: Capture homepage screenshot

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 14:38 -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Shiplu <shiplu.net@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > How can i capture homepage screenshot of a webpage by php? > > > > I know a way. > > I'll run a executable written in C/C++. when It will be called to process a > > screen shot It will just load the webpage in firefox and capture the image. > > It'll send the image path to php. The executable will be running. > > The problem with this solution is, I have to run X, Firefox in my web > > server, which doesn't look efficient for a server. > > > > I wanna know, is there any other way to achieve this? without creating a > > screen shot server. > > > > Thanks > > Shiplu > > http://talk.cmyweb.net/ > > > > google php screen scraping tutorial for more solutions Screen scraping is not what he wants. He wants a thumbnail of the homepage, not to extract a data structure by parsing the HTML. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP