i want to convert html page

amitgmail — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:43:39 +0000

i want to convert html page into image with php, but i can;t found any where proper response, i also use gd but not anything there, also i use imageegrabscreen(). please nay one hav any idea correct idea how to do this foor linux os. thnks plz reply soon as project deadline aare near...

Well that code snippet didn't

omthoke — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:13:57 +0000

Well that code snippet didn't work for me - @AndrewCF - can you possibly suggest what may be wrong?

By the way, I'm running latest version of PHP, but since I've never tried something similar in past, I'm not able to guess where I'm going wrong!

Hi Chris, If you website

AndrewCF — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:01:02 +0000

Hi Chris,

If you website based Windows server, you can use this HTML Convert SDK - ACA WebThumb ActiveX.

A simple PHP Script for converting HTML to image:

<?php
  $t_xMaker = new COM('ACAWebThumb.ThumbMaker')
    or die("Start ACAWebThumb.ThumbMakerfailed");

  $t_xMaker->SetURL("http://www.webmaster-forums.net"); 
  if ( 0 == $t_xMaker->StartSnap() )
  {
    // Snap successful, call SetImageFile() to save the image.
    echo "Take screenshot successful." ;
    $t_xMaker->SaveImage("c:/webmaster-forums.png");
  }
?>

If you PHP version >= 5.2.2, you can using following code:

<?php
$browser = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application");
$handle = $browser->HWND;
$browser->Visible = true;
$browser->Navigate("http://www.webmaster-forums.net");

/* Still working? */
while ($browser->Busy) {
    com_message_pump(4000);
}
$im = imagegrabwindow($handle, 0);
$browser->Quit();
imagepng($im, "webmaster-forums.png");
imagedestroy($im);
?>

Hey all, the html2fpdf did

thisismyurl — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:28:48 +0000

Hey all, the html2fpdf did most of what I needed so thanks for the great help.

Those third party services

JeevesBond — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:58:06 +0000

Those third party services are designed for public pages though, not HTML code that the OP is trying to keep private.

I meant to include your html2fpdf in the phrase third-party solution. Just haven't had any caffeine yet today.

I really should remedy that problem immediately!

Those third party services

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:51:41 +0000

Those third party services are designed for public pages though, not HTML code that the OP is trying to keep private.

I think you're right to go

JeevesBond — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:46:43 +0000

I think you're right to go with a third-party solution. Generating a screen shot from the server can be a real hassle: Web servers don't generally come with a window manager installed, as they take up valuable RAM. Xorg is taking up 200MB on my desktop machine, for example (although you'll need much less for just taking a screen shot of a Web page).

I investigated doing screen shots for our project pages, but found that installing Xorg, worrying about the amount of RAM it would take, and setting it all up was far more work than just using a third-party solution.

Good luck with your search though, and welcome to the forums!

I've never tried it, but I

kazimmerman — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:18:00 +0000

I've never tried it, but I think you could utilize the imagegrabscreen() or imagegrabwindow() functions from the GD library to output an image of the current screen. They should both work something like this:

<?php
//All of your normal code would go here
//But before exiting, grab a snapshot
$image = imagegrabscreen();
imagejpeg($image,"my_screenshot.jpeg");
imagedestroy($image);
?>

The imagegrabwindow() function requires more parameters that I haven't investigated, but the imagegrabscreen() function I believe would capture the entire screen, not just the window of focus.

Thanks guys, both

thisismyurl — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:00:25 +0000

Thanks guys, both suggestions are great. I'll take a look at WebSnapr but based on the requirement to do multiple views of variable data, I might need to go with the PDF version. I'll let you both know how it turns out.

I think the OP needs

pr0gr4mm3r — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:21:11 +0000

I think the OP needs something more in house than websnapr. There is a script here that can make a PDF for you. If you need it in an image format, there should be a script that could take it from PDF to the image format you're looking for.