True, you'd have to run it on the web client end, but you can run IE on the server to access the HTML the server is err..serving. The server can also be a client, in other words. So your server can generate a thumbnail of what it's serving out by acting as a client for a second.
As long as their security allows them to execute IE or interface with it and possibly the windows API. There are complexities, but it's the path I would explore if I had to create my own thumbnailing system (in the absence of some quick and easy utility that already did it). -TG > -----Original Message----- > From: raditha dissanayake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:28 PM > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] thumbnail of webpage > > > Gryffyn, Trevor wrote: > > >Some great recommendations, but my first thought is > wondering if you can > >interface with IE via COM or something. Or open the URL > via IE and use > >the Windows API to do a PRINT SCREEN or ALT-PRINT SCREEN to > capture it > >to the clipboard and do something funny that way. > > > > > > > Good ideas but then you would need to run PHP on the client > side and not on the server (assuming of course that the original > poster is not runnig his server on an OS that does not have any > security features). > > There was a similar question on 'the list' and someone suggested and > image magick would be able to do this. > > > -- > Raditha Dissanayake. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
