What I mean is to get the rendered HTML and make a Jpeg/GIF out of it. The idea is to make a digital snapshot of a page.
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Different browsers render the same HTML differently... – BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft Apr 27 '10 at 20:15
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Take a look at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/733219/733326#733326 wkhtml, pstohtml create both jpg or pdf from an html source (with css support) – Strae Apr 27 '10 at 22:41
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It will probably require far more effort than it is worth. Why not look at services that already provide this for you? (Like Alexa)
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You cannot do that in PHP only ; but, from PHP, you can start a browser, indicating it that it has to load the URL you want, and, then, get a "screenshot" from that browser.
I've heard a couple of time of Firefox being able to do that -- should be a couple of questions+answers here on SO that should help you get started ; here are a couple of those :
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Pascal MARTIN
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How about HTML to a PDF? Many libraries available. And PDF's can in turn converted to Image?
That can be done right? Or am I way off?
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