Re: [PHP] picturing webpage
I Agree with you that it's probably not manual, there are too many sites really for anyone to do it manually. IT can be done quite easily with java swing and though i am not a windows expert i am sure it can be done with visual basic as well. PHP was designed for different things. Stuart wrote: PHP Email List wrote: Not sure that you wanted to know this or if this was mentioned already as I'm just now going through my 13,000+ emails from this list, but this isn't done dynamically. I'm betting that this Alexa company gets the urls that are posted for viewing and then goes out to grab the site's pictures manually, I tried 4 sites in my own town and none had pictures, but said Coming soon where the pic was to be. I highly doubt they do it manually. I would say it's more likely that the first request for a site gets it added to a queue to be grabbed at some later date and is then periodically updated unless no requests are made for it after a certain period. But I'm just making a slightly educated guess. -- Raditha Dissanayake. http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ | http://www.raditha.com/megaupload Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with | Mega Upload - PHP file uploader Graphical User Inteface. Just 150 KB | with progress bar. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
Not sure that you wanted to know this or if this was mentioned already as I'm just now going through my 13,000+ emails from this list, but this isn't done dynamically. I'm betting that this Alexa company gets the urls that are posted for viewing and then goes out to grab the site's pictures manually, I tried 4 sites in my own town and none had pictures, but said Coming soon where the pic was to be. roughridershockey.com wolf-smart.com ---my site techwiz.net --friends site collinscu.org --my friends bank So hope that helps in your pursuit of the unknown! Good Luck! -Original Message- From: Ryan A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] picturing webpage Hey, if they are paying for this service of getting thumbnails.maybe I can write a script that keeps on hitting their site with different random URLs Would be a good way to make them pay for spamming me anyway. Whos with me? Cheers, -Ryan * Getting closer.. Did a little digging.. The script goes to alexa.com, from what I see, alexa is doing the work then sending the pics out. http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/xml_feed.html Does this help with anyone explaining how this works? Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
Hey, Thanks for that info, I checked a couple of other sites like jumac.com,securecents.com etc there and it showed me the same results as you got. Cheers, -Ryan On 1/11/2004 8:34:01 PM, PHP Email List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Not sure that you wanted to know this or if this was mentioned already as I'm just now going through my 13,000+ emails from this list, but this isn't done dynamically. I'm betting that this Alexa company gets the urls that are posted for viewing and then goes out to grab the site's pictures manually, I tried 4 sites in my own town and none had pictures, but said Coming soon where the pic was to be. roughridershockey.com wolf-smart.com ---my site techwiz.net --friends site collinscu.org --my friends bank So hope that helps in your pursuit of the unknown! Good Luck! -Original Message- From: Ryan A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] picturing webpage Hey, if they are paying for this service of getting thumbnails.maybe I can write a script that keeps on hitting their site with different random URLs Would be a good way to make them pay for spamming me anyway. Whos with me? Cheers, -Ryan * Getting closer.. Did a little digging.. The script goes to ale -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] picturing webpage
PHP Email List wrote: Not sure that you wanted to know this or if this was mentioned already as I'm just now going through my 13,000+ emails from this list, but this isn't done dynamically. I'm betting that this Alexa company gets the urls that are posted for viewing and then goes out to grab the site's pictures manually, I tried 4 sites in my own town and none had pictures, but said Coming soon where the pic was to be. I highly doubt they do it manually. I would say it's more likely that the first request for a site gets it added to a queue to be grabbed at some later date and is then periodically updated unless no requests are made for it after a certain period. But I'm just making a slightly educated guess. -- Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] picturing webpage
Mike Brum wrote: It could be similar to how you can build a PDF. They could just take your HTML and then use that to build a .JPG. I'm sure it's a very *expensive* process (server CPU -wise) though. There's an addon for LiveStats (www.mediahouse.com) that does this so it can display thumbs of pages on your site in its reports. It runs on Windows and appears to load the page in and embedded IE instance then takes a screenshot. -- Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] picturing webpage
Eli -- ...and then Eli Hen said... % % Hello All, Hi! % % I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. % By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out Hmmm... An interesting concept. % of the page URL given. (Like sometimes you have in search engines, that you % see the site URL and besides is the picture of the first page of the site). Can you provide an example? I know I've never seen this feature, and I'm not sure I follow what you mean. % What technologies I use for that? Is it possible with PHP? Dunno and dunno, but let's find out :-) % % -thanks, Eli HTH HAND Happy New Year :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
-Original Message- From: David T-G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 10:29 AM To: PHP General list Cc: Eli Hen Subject: Re: [PHP] picturing webpage Eli -- ...and then Eli Hen said... % % Hello All, Hi! % % I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. % By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out Hmmm... An interesting concept. % of the page URL given. (Like sometimes you have in search engines, that you % see the site URL and besides is the picture of the first page of the site). Can you provide an example? I know I've never seen this feature, and I'm not sure I follow what you mean. % What technologies I use for that? Is it possible with PHP? Dunno and dunno, but let's find out :-) % % -thanks, Eli HTH HAND Happy New Year :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! I've seen this many times, in spam emails sent to me, and in search engines. It takes a dynamic screen shot of the url and shows you the image. It's dynamic, I was playing with one I found, which I can't now, but I made changes to the site and it showed up on that page. I also thought it was very cool. I'll try to find the page, this was about a year ago when I found it before. Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
Hi! % % I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. % By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out Don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for but this might be what you're after. It was posted on Freshmeat just this week. http://www.babysimon.co.uk/khtml2png/ Ed Curtis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] picturing webpage
Hey, These sons of bitches at top--sites have done this, I call them that coz I regularly get spam from them. Try this URL: http://top--sites.com/update.htm?d=spamcop.come=p change spamcop to any other url... Cheers, -Ryan On 1/9/2004 4:28:33 PM, David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eli -- ...and then Eli Hen said... % % Hello All, Hi! % % I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. % By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out Hmmm... An interesting concept. % of the page URL given. (Like sometimes you have in search engines, that you % see the site URL and besides is the picture of the first page of the site). Can you provide an example? I know I've never seen this feature, and I'm not sure I follow what you mean. % What technologies I use for that? Is it possible with PHP? Dunno and dunno, but let's find out :-) % % -thanks, Eli HTH HAND Happy New Year :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
-Original Message- From: Ryan A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:55 PM To: David T-G Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] picturing webpage Hey, These sons of bitches at top--sites have done this, I call them that coz I regularly get spam from them. Try this URL: http://top--sites.com/update.htm?d=spamcop.come=p change spamcop to any other url... Cheers, -Ryan On 1/9/2004 4:28:33 PM, David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eli -- ...and then Eli Hen said... % % Hello All, Hi! % % I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. % By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out Hmmm... An interesting concept. % of the page URL given. (Like sometimes you have in search engines, that you % see the site URL and besides is the picture of the first page of the site). Can you provide an example? I know I've never seen this feature, and I'm not sure I follow what you mean. % What technologies I use for that? Is it possible with PHP? Dunno and dunno, but let's find out :-) % % -thanks, Eli HTH HAND Happy New Year :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php This is where I saw it! They're using a script, pic.cfm on a windows box which somehow grabs a screenshot of the url. Any clues how this is done? Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
I can tell you this much, .cfm is ColdFusion. And CF is somewhat similar to PHP in it's embedded-in style of scripting. It could be similar to how you can build a PDF. They could just take your HTML and then use that to build a .JPG. I'm sure it's a very *expensive* process (server CPU -wise) though. -M -Original Message- From: Jake McHenry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:11 PM To: 'Ryan A' Cc: 'Php-general' Subject: RE: [PHP] picturing webpage -Original Message- From: Ryan A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:55 PM To: David T-G Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] picturing webpage Hey, These sons of bitches at top--sites have done this, I call them that coz I regularly get spam from them. Try this URL: http://top--sites.com/update.htm?d=spamcop.come=p change spamcop to any other url... Cheers, -Ryan On 1/9/2004 4:28:33 PM, David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eli -- ...and then Eli Hen said... % % Hello All, Hi! % % I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. % By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out Hmmm... An interesting concept. % of the page URL given. (Like sometimes you have in search engines, that you % see the site URL and besides is the picture of the first page of the site). Can you provide an example? I know I've never seen this feature, and I'm not sure I follow what you mean. % What technologies I use for that? Is it possible with PHP? Dunno and dunno, but let's find out :-) % % -thanks, Eli HTH HAND Happy New Year :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php This is where I saw it! They're using a script, pic.cfm on a windows box which somehow grabs a screenshot of the url. Any clues how this is done? Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
-Original Message- From: Ryan A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:55 PM To: David T-G Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] picturing webpage Hey, These sons of bitches at top--sites have done this, I call them that coz I regularly get spam from them. Try this URL: http://top--sites.com/update.htm?d=spamcop.come=p change spamcop to any other url... Cheers, -Ryan On 1/9/2004 4:28:33 PM, David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eli -- ...and then Eli Hen said... % % Hello All, Hi! % % I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. % By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out Hmmm... An interesting concept. % of the page URL given. (Like sometimes you have in search engines, that you % see the site URL and besides is the picture of the first page of the site). Can you provide an example? I know I've never seen this feature, and I'm not sure I follow what you mean. % What technologies I use for that? Is it possible with PHP? Dunno and dunno, but let's find out :-) % % -thanks, Eli HTH HAND Happy New Year :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Getting closer.. Did a little digging.. The script goes to alexa.com, from what I see, alexa is doing the work then sending the pics out. http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/xml_feed.html Does this help with anyone explaining how this works? Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
Yep, They might be spammers and lowlifes but they have a pretty nice program running there. I wrote to them twice but didnt get a replyI wonder if its because I kind of said a few bad words directed at them, their mothers, fathers and family.??? Cheers, -Ryan On 1/9/2004 7:10:35 PM, Jake McHenry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -Original Message- From: Ryan A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:55 PM To: David T-G Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] picturing webpage Hey, These sons of bitches at top--sites have done this, I call them that coz I regularly get spam from them. Try this URL: http://top--sites.com/update.htm?d=spamcop.come=p change spamcop to any other url... Cheers, -Ryan On 1/9/2004 4:28:33 PM, David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eli -- ...and then Eli Hen said... % % Hello All, Hi! % % I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. % By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out Hmmm... An interesting concept. % of the page URL given. (Like sometimes you have in search engines, that you -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] picturing webpage
Hey, if they are paying for this service of getting thumbnails.maybe I can write a script that keeps on hitting their site with different random URLs Would be a good way to make them pay for spamming me anyway. Whos with me? Cheers, -Ryan * Getting closer.. Did a little digging.. The script goes to alexa.com, from what I see, alexa is doing the work then sending the pics out. http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/xml_feed.html Does this help with anyone explaining how this works? Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] picturing webpage
Hi. Tough one for php since php is a server side scripting langauge as you would have no doubt seen in the list newbie guide. HTML rendering is typically a client side thing. Try java, c++ or if you are on on windows maybe even vb. Eli Hen wrote: Hello All, I wanted to know if it is possible to picture a webpage via PHP. By picturing I mean that the program can generate a picture, a view, out of the page URL given. (Like sometimes you have in search engines, that you see the site URL and besides is the picture of the first page of the site). What technologies I use for that? Is it possible with PHP? -thanks, Eli -- Raditha Dissanayake. http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ | http://www.raditha.com/megaupload Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with | Mega Upload - PHP file uploader Graphical User Inteface. Just 150 KB | with progress bar. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
