This would be cool as a standalone as well Dave.
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:38:33 +1300 Came this utterance formulated by Dave Lane to my mailbox: > > To clarify, our module has the following components: > On the server side, a web service interface for headless browser (FF > 3) instance which takes chromeless screenshots without user > interaction and on the client side, you just put a URL like > http://webshot.server/?site=http://site.to.screenshot/plus/path/if/desired&scale=0.5 > and it returns either a placeholder "Screenshot coming soon!" image > if > the screenshot has only just been requested (the server queues the > screenshot requests and processes them as fast as possible) or the > scaled image if it's previously been screenshot. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > Dave Lane wrote: > > For what it's worth, we (Egressive) have written a Drupal module > > which provides and serves up "webshots" - for examples of use (the > > module is still fairly alpha), see http://egressive.com/drupal_sites > > or http://travelbookmarking.com > > > > When time allows, I'll be improving the code with the goal of > > getting a client-server pair of modules up onto Drupal.org for > > general use. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > Aaron Cooper wrote: > >> Howdy all, > >> > >> I really don't think this will be possible with PHP without some > >> server-side software additions but just checking to see if there > >are> other methods or if someone has done something similar. > >> > >> We have a email marketing system, where we load HTML email > >templates> into customer accounts. This HTML code is stored in the DB > >and loaded> into a WYSIWYG editor for each mail out. > >> > >> At the moment, we take screenshots of parsed output for this HTML, > >> resize in PS, and load into the system so that our users can see a > >> thumbnail snapshot of their HTML template when they are selecting > >which> template to use for a campaign. > >> > >> It's getting to the stage that we are adding a template a day and > >this> is becoming a bit tedious, and now have a need to automate the > >thumbnail> generation process if possible. > >> > >> The ideal situation is for us to: > >> 1. Click a button to generate thumbnail after loading the template > >HTML> 2. A script (or external service) is given the URL to the HTML > >output> page on the server, with the template ID. This will simply > >output and> render the HTML in the DB. > >> 3. Script takes snapshot of HTML > >> 4. Resize snapshot to suit interface (250x200) > >> 5. Saves thumbnail to a statically named directory, with a > >dynamically> named filename. > >> > >> I assume that this is going to require a browser on the server. > >We're> running on Debian here (shell only), and I'm no *Nix guru > >either.> > >> Thoughts? > >> > >> Aaron > >> > > > > -- > Dave Lane = Egressive Ltd = [email protected] = m: +64 21 229 8147 > p: +64 3 9633733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents > http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org > Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com > > -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
