Topic awaiting preservation: website 'Screenshots' with PHP? (Page 1 of 1)

Hi, I have been lookg for a way to implement a simple one-click button in firefox that will do a webpage screenshot (with autoscrolling) and quietly save it to a pre-specified directory with the domain as the filename - ie. ozoneasylum.com.png.

I can't find any apps that do this, as the extension for mozilla that was being developed to do this has been inactive for so long and never had any working releases anyway.

I found a program called url2bmp that uses an embedded IE to take screenshots - I wrote a bookmarklet that sends the page dimensions and domain etc to the program on my computer (uses activeX) and this isn't too bad except I can't do the same screenshots from firefox, and I also can't use the gecko renderer.

So I was just wondering if there is a php library or app that can do this - I could then send all the site details with a bookmarklet to my web server and it could take care of it all for me. The only problem I see here is that there is no browser on my web server so it couldn't actually render the site at all - and since I don't own it I can't put any programs on it, only scripts and stuff (does anybody know of an cgi or perl based versions of the gecko renderer?)

Basically I just want a non-obtrusive and non-intrusive way to click on button in my browser (firefox) to reliably capture the website as a png or any graphic really. Screen capture tools come with so much junk and useless 'editors' and require so much intervention and don't save sites with the domain as the file name and they all suck - this is probably the final firefox extension I need before firefox is the ultimate web developer/designer browser ever.

Thanks guys.

SCRWD//MULTIMEDIA PORTAL

I don't know of anything like that that you could use without being able install software on your webserver... But I'm no *nix guru so don't take my word on it.

If you just want to do this on your desktop PC then you might want to look into hypersnap-dx by http://www.hyperionics.com/ as it's geared a little more towards capturing data from applicaitons, including whole web pages (gets the whole pages scrollable area rather than just snaging what's on the screen). It's also been updated recently to work with Firefox.

I know hypersnap - but it requires me to have it running, then press the 'hot key' then select the window then wait for it to copy then rename it manually to the sites url - it is too arduous - if you think about what I am after makes sense, it's an easy way to keep of record of site designs you like all with one click. When somebody makes the firefox extension that interfaces with hypersnap or whatever providing what I really want then I will be happy - I don't even know if hypersnap has much of an api or whether it can except 'query strings', but the idea is cool.

SCRWD//MULTIMEDIA PORTAL