Re: [DEV] Attaching binary executable to extension

On 14/01/13 14:41, Yahav Gindi Bar wrote: > On 14 בינו 2013, at 15:24, Ángel González wrote: >> If it's just a wrapper for the program, you don't need to include the >> program. It should just be noted that "it needs X program installed". >> However, I wonder why you need a php extension in such case. It seems as >> it could be done in php. > Because as discussed in many threads I saw in the net, there's no cross-platform way to > take a website screenshot. > gd contains imagegrabscreen() however it's been support only on Windows based platforms. > for linux solutions, usually one uses a web service or execute program using exec and such. > The main problem I see here is that users without root access in shared environments can't > take screenshots without usage of external web service, so I thought it'd be nice to wrap a C > program that uses Qt WebKit wrapper in some PHP methods in order to take screenshots. > > Do you know a cross-platform way that I've missed? Is this justification OK for PECL > extension? I am not discussing your need for a binary. My point is that if all that your extension does is calling an external program, you are better launching it from php. Specially if you are targeting shared environments.