Re: Create a screenshot of a website

Jason wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Andrea Giammarchi [mailto:an_red@hotmail.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 16:34 To: networkadmin@emarket2.com; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with

the

activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions.

Full

PHP example code is given for all functions as well.

Now this is truly interesting, is there any particular reason it works only with windows web server? Any chance it could be somehow integrated via VM Virtual Images if the reason is driven Internet Explorer? Regards That is a question you'd have to ask the developer I'm afraid. The only PHP compatible interface is COM (which I'm pretty sure is windows only), so you'd need to be running PHP on windows (IIRC).

It would be possible to have a linux webserver that uses a windows VM proxy webserver to facilitate the COM request. This is not entire absurd since generation of website screenshots can be quite processor intensive so it might work well split it off to it's own machine (virtual or physical). Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP