Websnapr might be a partial answer if you could generate the thumbnail and then save it. You would have to produce the template as a url and then write a script to intervene in the process and save the template to your desired location.
http://www.websnapr.com/ Kent On Feb 27, 10:46 am, "Aaron Cooper" <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy all, > > I really don't think this will be possible with PHP without some server-side > software additions but just checking to see if there are other methods or if > someone has done something similar. > > We have a email marketing system, where we load HTML email templates into > customer accounts. This HTML code is stored in the DB and loaded into a > WYSIWYG editor for each mail out. > > At the moment, we take screenshots of parsed output for this HTML, resize in > PS, and load into the system so that our users can see a thumbnail snapshot > of their HTML template when they are selecting which template to use for a > campaign. > > It's getting to the stage that we are adding a template a day and this is > becoming a bit tedious, and now have a need to automate the thumbnail > generation process if possible. > > The ideal situation is for us to: > 1. Click a button to generate thumbnail after loading the template HTML > 2. A script (or external service) is given the URL to the HTML output page on > the server, with the template ID. This will simply output and render the HTML > in the DB. > 3. Script takes snapshot of HTML > 4. Resize snapshot to suit interface (250x200) > 5. Saves thumbnail to a statically named directory, with a dynamically named > filename. > > I assume that this is going to require a browser on the server. We're running > on Debian here (shell only), and I'm no *Nix guru either. > > Thoughts? > > Aaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
