PHP, SSH, grabbing remote screenshots

Hi, All

I need a way to programatically grab a screenshot from a url.

I've been doing some reading about linux command line utilities like xwd and xwininfo, but what I want is way to grab a screenshot via php, or run a script from php that will grab one.

Lots of sites seem to do this, www.dzone.com being a case in point.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Mos

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I've been doing some reading about linux command line utilities like xwd and xwininfo, but what I want is way to grab a screenshot via php, or run a script from php that will grab one.

Lots of sites seem to do this, www.dzone.com being a case in point.

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Do you have DreamHostPS ?



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No, just shared.

Might be an idea to outsource the job to a browsershots server somewhere.

Best results (flash handling mostly) are with Opera10/WinXP and IE8/WinXP screencaps.




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Yup, thumbshots.com has a $5 month service, but it kinda feels wrong for a developer to outsource something so trivial.

I'm not sure you can party with Xvfb on shared.




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