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  • Justin
    #1

    Generating Page Preview

    I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
    It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
    text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
    and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
    where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
    is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
    render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
    how would I go about it?

    TIA,
    Justin

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    • muldoonaz
      #2
      Re: Generating Page Preview

      Justin wrote:[color=blue]
      > I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
      > It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
      > text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
      > and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
      > where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
      > is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
      > render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
      > how would I go about it?
      >
      > TIA,
      > Justin
      >[/color]

      have you thought about using iframes?

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        • Justin
          #3
          Re: Generating Page Preview

          On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:51:17 GMT, muldoonaz wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > Justin wrote:[color=green]
          >> I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
          >> It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
          >> text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
          >> and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
          >> where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
          >> is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
          >> render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
          >> how would I go about it?
          >>
          >> TIA,
          >> Justin
          >>[/color]
          >
          > have you thought about using iframes?[/color]

          It's an idea, but I'd like it to be a scaled down version that won't
          require scrolling to view.

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            • Zoe Brown
              #4
              Re: Generating Page Preview


              "Justin" <cRyExM0O7V@EhT oHtIpSop.com> wrote in message
              news:51onbksmw2 lj$.l28bekobn7g l.dlg@40tude.ne t...[color=blue]
              > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:51:17 GMT, muldoonaz wrote:
              >[color=green]
              >> Justin wrote:[color=darkred]
              >>> I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
              >>> It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
              >>> text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
              >>> and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
              >>> where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
              >>> is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
              >>> render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
              >>> how would I go about it?
              >>>
              >>> TIA,
              >>> Justin
              >>>[/color]
              >>
              >> have you thought about using iframes?[/color]
              >
              > It's an idea, but I'd like it to be a scaled down version that won't
              > require scrolling to view.[/color]

              it can do, swap the style sheet for a "mini.css" which uses smaller fonts,
              tables, images ect...interesti ng idea actually.

              Failing that you would have to create a jpeg for each of the pages that
              *could" be created and load that. I have done this in the past but only
              where there have been 10 or possibilities.


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                • Sandman
                  #5
                  Re: Generating Page Preview

                  In article <1lqkjnv1eewoe$ .1v5n38zs2onqh. dlg@40tude.net> ,
                  Justin <cRyExM0O7V@EhT oHtIpSop.com> wrote:
                  [color=blue]
                  > I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
                  > It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
                  > text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
                  > and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
                  > where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
                  > is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
                  > render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
                  > how would I go about it?[/color]

                  This isn't possible using PHP. Basically what you want is a thumbnail of how
                  the page will look *when rendered* by a web browser.

                  PHP doesn't know *anything* about how the resulting page will look and can't
                  generate such preview.

                  But are you managing content or the entire site (i.e. design, menu et all) with
                  this script? I am the author of a CMS system myself and whenever a user in my
                  system edits a text and submits, it will be shown in the correct context on the
                  site and will thuis be fully previewable - only in true, live, full-scale.

                  What kind of extra step are you trying to avoid? Why not have the user switch
                  between a view and edit mode of their site?



                  --
                  Sandman[.net]

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