RE: [PHP] web shot script

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 18:48 -0500, Joey wrote: > Sorry for the delay. > > The purpose is to be able to see what is running on a site at any given time. > If we are webhosting we want to make sure something is live or not and see the whole page, > without visiting each and every site. Plus the sites might change so we want to know at any given > time. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Lucas [mailto:lists@cmsws.com] > > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:48 AM > > To: Andrew Barnett > > Cc: Afan Pasalic; Joey; PHP > > Subject: Re: [PHP] web shot script > > > > Andrew Barnett wrote: > > > You might actually be onto something there Afan. > > > > > > As long as Ghostscript and Imagemagick are installed on the server, you will > > > be able to convert a PDF to an image. So maybe that will help. > > > > > > Although, is it possible to have a continuous length PDF, or does it only > > > fit to specific page sizes. > > > > > > Its probably worth a shot though Joey. > > > > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > > Isn't the idea of getting different screen shots about SEEING how the page > > looks on various system configurations? Windows, Mac, *nix then throw in > > various browsers like IE, FF, Opera, Google? > > > > This is the service that I thought these other companies provided. You could > > probably do something like this on one computer by having VMWare (or similar) > > software running to see all the different renderings. > > > > -- > > Jim Lucas > > > > "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, > > and some have greatness thrust upon them." > > > > Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V > > by William Shakespeare > > > Why don't you set up a cron job (can be on any computer, doesn't have to be the server) that just grabs a page from a list of sites using wget. You could then check for the response codes for any problems, and possible add a grep in there to make sure the site is not showing any errors? Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk