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Kind of a cute idea -- but what a massive infrastructure. Sadly, there 
doesn't seem to be an fopen-wrappers compatible GD image function called 
'getwebpageandrenderaspngjustlikethelatestversionofIEorFFwould()' (grin).

I'll bet PHP-Windows people could do this sort of thing quasi-natively, 
all on the server side, by slaving a local copy of IE under control of a 
thin ActiveX component. But I'll bet FF on Linux can't be controlled 
(read: 'subverted') in an analogous way -- to look where you tell it to 
look, and capture a screenshot to the local file system.

But I'll bet a Linux PHP user could approximate the same effect (with 
better security) by downloading an ActiveX screen capture component to a 
client PC under IE, then using AJAX (or simpler asynch techniques) to let 
the PHP server drive the client browser around the web, making it look at 
and capture URLs in iframes, and upload the resulting image files. To keep 
from hitting cross-domain security roadblocks, you'd probably have to 
proxy the client's outbound accesses across your server.

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There is an API service for it ...

http://webshotspro.com/

Its free unless you want your priority on their cluster moved up ...

http://webshotspro.com/register.php

It does not look fullscreen though, only app Ive seen do it is Papparazi 
on the Mac (http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/)

- Jon

On Nov 11, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Joseph Crawford wrote:

Hey guys,

I found something today that was rather interesting and i would like to 
feed my brain and figure out how to do something like this

http://webdesignbook.net/snapper.php?url=http://www.josephcrawford.com&full


you can change the url in the querystring and it will take a live 
screenshot of the page.

Any direction on what i should research would be great.  obviously i would 
have to use image manipulation, but i am not sure how the screen would be 
captured. 

-- 
Joseph Crawford Jr.
Zend Certified Engineer
Codebowl Solutions, Inc.
http://www.codebowl.com/
Blog: http://www.josephcrawford.com/ 
1-802-671-2021
codebowl at gmail.com
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