capturing webpages using gd2

[Coditor]

Hi,

I'm building an page where our customers can "advertise" their homepages. For that purpose, I would like to create a thumbnail of their homepage but I want to do this automatically.

Does anyone know of anyway to store a webpage as an image using php/gd2? I can read the HTML of a page (using sockets) but parsing the HTML to an image would be like creating my own browser... 😛

Coditor

[weekender]

this is something i've put a lot of thought into - i was going to write this function for my dissertation, but wasn't confident of how accurately a screenshot could be made, due to stylesheets, dhtml, z-indexes etc etc.

i'd be interested to see where this goes