Hi there ppl,
Recently, I got spam from an online company named SeekerCenter (http://www.seekercenter.com) and they presented me with a way to expose my site.
Although I almost deleted it, there was one thing that caught my attention: they managed to create a screengrab of my site, scaled it down (it looked subsampled) and presented it in their HTML mail.
I figure that they won't be doing this by hand (it looked like a fairly standard message), but I would like to know how they managed to automate this.
I thought that it should be possible to do it with PHP (opening the target site with fopen() for example, interpreting the stuff, making an image of it and then subsampling it to create the final thumbnail).
This would really look fine (if periodically updated with a cron-job for example) next to a list of links ;-). Any ideas? Or do I need to write an external program for it and call it from within PHP? Or is there some standard software/plug-in available for something like this? Thanx in advance.
GRTZ,
VuurSnikkel.
