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Re: web page to image

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: web page to image
Date 2011-10-09 09:11 +0100
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paris2venice wrote:
> On Oct 8, 6:35 pm, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>> bob wrote:
>>> I want to turn a web page into a 768x1024 image using PHP.  For
>>> instance the script might loadhttp://www.example.com/and output a
>>> 768x1024 image.  Anyone know how to do this?
>> Forget it: you need a browser to do that.
> 
> It could be done if you can execute external Unix commands with PHP
> which I believe you can.  I'm just not advanced enough at PHP to show
> how Unix commands can be executed to accomplish this.

system() is the way, or the exec() type calls. BUT essenially you want 
to exec a full screen browser and take a screen shot.


OR bite the bullet and start hacking e.g. Mozilla source.

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web page to image bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-10-08 17:39 -0700
  Re: web page to image The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-09 02:35 +0100
    Re: web page to image paris2venice <paris2venice@gmail.com> - 2011-10-08 23:55 -0700
      Re: web page to image The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-09 09:11 +0100
        Re: web page to image houghi <houghi@houghi.org.invalid> - 2011-10-09 11:18 +0200
  Re: web page to image Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-10-08 22:15 -0400
  Re: web page to image Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-10-08 22:18 -0700
  Re: web page to image bobm3@worthless.info - 2011-10-09 15:39 -0400
    Re: web page to image The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-09 20:43 +0100
      Re: web page to image Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2011-10-10 09:19 +0200
  Re: web page to image "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-10-10 11:12 +0200
  Re: web page to image gordonb.cydcw@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-10-17 19:40 -0500

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