Yup, this is precisely what I'm looking for - it's the whole automatic browser that appears to be the gap in info I've looked at.
I imagine the server needs to be running Windows or X-Windows if Linux? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Adams" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: [phpug] Re: HTML (URL) to Image > > > This would be cool as a standalone as well Dave. > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:38:33 +1300 > Came this utterance formulated by Dave Lane to my mailbox: > >> >> To clarify, our module has the following components: >> On the server side, a web service interface for headless browser (FF >> 3) instance which takes chromeless screenshots without user >> interaction and on the client side, you just put a URL like >> http://webshot.server/?site=http://site.to.screenshot/plus/path/if/desired&scale=0.5 >> and it returns either a placeholder "Screenshot coming soon!" image >> if >> the screenshot has only just been requested (the server queues the >> screenshot requests and processes them as fast as possible) or the >> scaled image if it's previously been screenshot. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dave >> >> Dave Lane wrote: >> > For what it's worth, we (Egressive) have written a Drupal module >> > which provides and serves up "webshots" - for examples of use (the >> > module is still fairly alpha), see http://egressive.com/drupal_sites >> > or http://travelbookmarking.com >> > >> > When time allows, I'll be improving the code with the goal of >> > getting a client-server pair of modules up onto Drupal.org for >> > general use. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Dave >> > >> > Aaron Cooper 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 >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> Dave Lane = Egressive Ltd = [email protected] = m: +64 21 229 8147 >> p: +64 3 9633733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents >> http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org >> Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com >> >> > > -- > Michael > > All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall > be well > > - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
