real-time webpage preview with PHP ?

[tiberiusvp]

Hi there!
I got a webpage, on which the user can choose between different stylesheets. In one of the stylesheets I offer small thumbnails of the diferent styles. Watch here (page is in german, but you should be able to see, what I'm talking about): Look here.

At the moment, the thumbnails are created by taking a screenshot -> Photoshop does the rest.

My question: Is it possible to create the thumbnail "on the fly" representing the actual page content in the associated to the stylesheet. Like a "render-webpage-and-create-image"- function ?
And if it is possible, how ?

Why I need this: My webpage will change content very often (which webpage doesn't ?) and I don't want to create a new screenshot every time I change the content, so I thought, maybe it is possible to let PHP create the thumbnail...
Also I guess it is not possible :-(

If anyone knows an answer, I'd be pleased if you'd let me know...

Thanks!

Tiberius

[weekender]

this has been talked about before on phpbuilder, and i think we all decided it was a monster project that would need some dedication - you have to consider stylesheets, layers, z-indexes etc etc. It really is complex

[tiberiusvp]

Hi!

Well... I think, then Photoshop will be fine for me in the future :-)

Thanks!

Tib