Sorry meant 'save the thumbnail' not the 'template'
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
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