Take screen shot using PHP?

[howa]

Hello,

Is it possible to take a screen shot of the browser using PHP?

Something similar to Alexa Web Site Screen Dump...

thx

[David Quinton]

Re: Take screen shot using PHP?

On 20 Feb 2007 22:00:00 -0800, "howa" <howachen@gmail .comwrote:

>Hello,
>
>Is it possible to take a screen shot of the browser using PHP?

I don't think you can directly.
But ISTR that, if you have KDE, you can dump Konqueror's screens to
PNG etc.

And I guess this could be "front-ended" with PHP?

But it was a few years ago that I played, and I could be wrong...
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Re: Take screen shot using PHP?

On Feb 21, 8:58 am, David Quinton
<usenet_2005D_e m...@REMOVETHIS BITbizorg.co.uk wrote:

On 20 Feb 2007 22:00:00 -0800, "howa" <howac...@gmail .comwrote:
>

Hello,

>

Is it possible to take a screen shot of the browser using PHP?

>
I don't think you can directly.
But ISTR that, if you have KDE, you can dump Konqueror's screens to
PNG etc.
>
And I guess this could be "front-ended" with PHP?
>
But it was a few years ago that I played, and I could be wrong...
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Dear Howa,

as David said. PHP can not do it by itself. But you can use e.g.
system() to access the print-screen functionality of your operating
system or graphical front end - e.g. KDE.

Good luck
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[Willem Bogaerts]

Re: Take screen shot using PHP?

Is it possible to take a screen shot of the browser using PHP?

>
Something similar to Alexa Web Site Screen Dump...

No, but JavaScript features a root-html element. I think it is called
DocumentElement . I use this feature to store an HTML "screenshot " along
with annotations to my test sites.

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[howa]

Re: Take screen shot using PHP?

On Feb 21, 4:42 pm, Willem Bogaerts
<w.bogae...@kra tz.maardanzonde rditstuk.nlwrot e:

Is it possible to take a screen shot of the browser using PHP?

>

Something similar to Alexa Web Site Screen Dump...

>
No, but JavaScript features a root-html element. I think it is called
DocumentElement . I use this feature to store an HTML "screenshot " along
with annotations to my test sites.
>

Hello, I am interested in your solution. Can you tell me more abt
this?

Thanks first.

[Gordon Burditt]

Re: Take screen shot using PHP?

>Is it possible to take a screen shot of the browser using PHP?

>>
>I don't think you can directly.
>But ISTR that, if you have KDE, you can dump Konqueror's screens to
>PNG etc.
>>
>And I guess this could be "front-ended" with PHP?
>>
>But it was a few years ago that I played, and I could be wrong...
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>Great gifts: <http://www.ThisBritain .com/ASOS_popup.html >

>
>Dear Howa,
>
>as David said. PHP can not do it by itself. But you can use e.g.
>system() to access the print-screen functionality of your operating
>system or graphical front end - e.g. KDE.

PHP runs on the server. Any use of system() will also run on the server.
Taking a snapshot of the screen of the server is (a) likely not what
was wanted, (b) a significant security hole on the server, (c) even
if you somehow could get the screen snapshot to work on the client
machine, it's a security breach there also.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: Take screen shot using PHP?

howa wrote:

On Feb 21, 4:42 pm, Willem Bogaerts
<w.bogae...@kra tz.maardanzonde rditstuk.nlwrot e:

>>Is it possible to take a screen shot of the browser using PHP?
>>Something similar to Alexa Web Site Screen Dump...

>No, but JavaScript features a root-html element. I think it is called
>DocumentElemen t. I use this feature to store an HTML "screenshot " along
>with annotations to my test sites.
>>

>
Hello, I am interested in your solution. Can you tell me more abt
this?
>
Thanks first.
>

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[Toby A Inkster]

Re: Take screen shot using PHP?

Gordon Burditt wrote:

PHP runs on the server. Any use of system() will also run on the server.
Taking a snapshot of the screen of the server is (a) likely not what
was wanted,

Well, that's precisely the method used by services like BrowserCam.

Linux/UNIX servers using X11 can have multiple displays. A dedicated
display (e.g. ":1") could be set up as 1024x768 running Opera in full
screen mode.

Then the PHP script calls the following command with system():

opera -remote 'openURL(http://www.example.net/)'

waits a designated amount of time (10 seconds?) and then calls:

import -display :1 -window root /tmp/screen-shot.jpeg

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[Dikkie Dik]

Re: Take screen shot using PHP?

Hello, I am interested in your solution. Can you tell me more abt

this?

From my (test) site, I open a new window with JavaScript code. This
window has a simple form that allows the user to enter a remark. This
form also has a hidden field "ctlSnapsho t".

Before submitting the form, I run the following script:

var strContent = window.opener.d ocument.documen tElement.innerH TML;
document.getEle mentById('ctlSn apshot').value = strContent;

That's it. The HTML of the current page of the test site is submitted
and stored along with the comment.

Best regards.