It uses Xvfb (an X virtual frame buffer - headless :)) D
Aaron Cooper wrote: > Yup, this is precisely what I'm looking for - it's the whole automatic > browser that appears to be the gap in info I've looked at. > > I imagine the server needs to be running Windows or X-Windows if Linux? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Adams" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 3:58 PM > Subject: [phpug] Re: HTML (URL) to Image > > >> >> 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 >> > > > > -- 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
