Launching a brower shouldn't be difficult.. there's a few ways to do that. Taking the screenshot might be trickier though. I don't know of any function in IE that'll take a screenshot so don't know if you could do it through a COM interface to IE.
My first impulse was to maybe check out the PHP extension Winbinder: http://www.hypervisual.com/winbinder/ But while it gives you access to low level Windows API functions, it might take some hacking to get it to get you a screenshot. A non-php solution might be to use something like WinBatch. It's a Windows scripting/automation language that I've used in the past. It DOES have a Snapshot() function and can probably do everything you need. http://www.winbatch.com/ The program costs money, but there are more inexpensive programs that have WIL (WinBatch Interactive Language?) scripts. I remember using a program called ClockMan95 to run the scripts. It cost like $30 versus the $90+ for WinBatch. So that's what comes to mind for me.. 1. COM PHP -> IE 2. WinBinder PHP Extension 3. WinBatch Good luck! -TG = = = Original message = = = Hi all We just bought ourselfs a very basic windows station so that we can test our php and html applications on windows as well. For the html applications, a simple screen shot of how it looks in internet explorer is sufficient. I know how to handle http authentication, file uploads, streaming files back to the browser and all that, but would like some advise on how I can control internet explorer from php. The scheme: a coworker logs on on the page, enters a local network url, the scripts launches internetxplorer with that url, takes a screen shot picture and streams that back to the browser. Any ideas anyone? With kind regards Andy ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
