Is it possible to take some kind of a screenshot of any website with php? I've seen some websites that do this, can it be done with php?
Everything's possible. You would need to have an X server running on your host if you're on a *nix machine. Launch the browser via shell command, passing site's url as an argument (should be possible no?), and take the screenshot using tool such as scrot. Crop , scale and save it - there you go. If your on a windows box, you would probably be able to use com objects, but that's not a field I know about..
thanks for the link dave, looks good..I'll check it out somebody on sitepoint pointed me to a link, you can download a program called webswoon which is written in python that does this.. http://www.intellitamper.com/webswoon/