Website picture from PHP

If I remember correctly, the command-line/console screenshot app is called
"xwd" (x window dump). Google it. So there is the missing piece of your
puzzle. But it still seems like quite a "bulky" solution.

Regards,

[-b]

"William Maddler" <newsNOSPAM@maddler.net> wrote in message
news:35lgefF4o7gtvU1@individual.net...
> 0000=year wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> does anyone of you know a save method on PHP to relyably, maybe using
>> other programs create scrennshots (thumbnails) of websites?
>>
>> I am the administrator of the open source project (at SourceForge)
>> "TSEP -
>> The Search Engine Project" (http://tsep.sf.net) and we might want to show
>> pictures of the website our search engine has found. The generation
>> process of the thumbnails should be pretty automatic (as much as
>> possible)
>>
>> My tries to find an "optimal" solution did not bring any good results
>> yet,
>> so I am hopeing for better information here.
>
> mumble... ok... it is not done with PHP... but I think this could help...
> there is a command (can't recall it's name right now) which allows you to
> capture an X screenshot from the command line. Basically what you need to
> to is a file (or a SQL table) containing all the URLs to be "shooted".
> Then
> have them opened with Firefox (using the '-remote "openurl()"' function)
> and the script to capture the screen. Once the capture is done you can
> load
> the next site.
>
> The only part missing is the name of the proggie to do the screenshot from
> the console. I am 101% sure it exists...
>
> hope it helps... or drop me a line... I'll be happy to help...
>
> --
> William Maddler

Hi Rajesh Jeba

Can you please email me that stuff too?
olaf0000@team-noehring.de
please change 0000 to 2005

thanks already
Olaf


>> R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
>> > kicken wrote:
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> >>(I used mozilla, but I think it would apply for firefox too)
>> >
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> > I bookmarked and saved your code sometimes ago. But, I see the
> links
>> > are now dead. IMHO, if they're up, you may get some feedbacks and
>> > suggestions to improve that code.
>>
>> Problem is I don't have the code anymore. I keep my server at our
> house
>> and around last october one of my sisters friends accidently threw CD
>
>> Player into it which broke the CPU fan and also messed up the
> harddrive.
>> Couldn't get it back, lost a lot of stuff that day. I could
> probably
>> re-write it, didn't consist of much, but I simply don't want to, at
>> least not now.
>
> Sad news. *Fortunately*, I did save your webshot scripts and I have
> them. If you need them, please respond, I'll mail you _or_ if you
> think, it's ok to post your code here, I'll be happy to do so.
>
> --
> <?php echo 'Just another PHP saint'; ?>
> Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com Blog: http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/
>



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Hi Sam

no solution has turned up yet. I have surfed the web for screenshot
utilities - but none of them seems to be able to to the job either (crawl +
take screenshots)

Olaf

> I found that you solve the problem and you let the php script tp take a
> screen shot
>
> and i'm searching about that?
> can you tell more information about how to do that please?


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