How to thumbnail a webpage

I want to make thumbnails of webpages with php and save them to my server.
But how?

 

It hard to do it in PHP only. You'd need to build a HTML-renderer in PHP.

 

You can't do it by using PHP only...

 

I'm interested in something this also. If you can't do in php only, what else do you need?

 

Just searched for thumbnail webpage php on google and the first hit provided something usefull (atleast, looks like it).

Perhaps worth reading trough that, can't provide you with a direct link tough as I'm a new member

 

This is the live search link
http://www.google.com/search?q=thumbnail+webpage+php

 

Hi,

We have done this with php and gd.
I have the code.
If you would like to shell out some dollars, i can provide you with that.
Contact me in pm, if you would like to.

 

There is a really simple method:
http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url=SITE URL

you can replace google.com with another site url
e.g
<img src="http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url=http://www.google.com">

seen this in a few web directories.
hope u find it useful

 

Ah,
In case you are thinking about linking the thumbnail from some other location, you can think about a better option at
http://www.websnapr.com/
You have the liberty to change the size.
But in case you want to create a script all for yourself and keep generating, i can just help you out.

 

Pretty cool but the thumbnails for both my sites are from a long time ago.

 

Take screenshots in PHP (sort of): http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4608.html