Can't be done without using the command line function, and then it depends on what platform. you running on linux or windows? (your server that is)
you can use already made solutions and integrate into ur site http://www.shrinktheweb.com/getcode.htm http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/website-thumbnail-generator.php
Lunix my friend link no 1 .. file not found ... link no 2 .. from comment just running under windows yes ... i want to know how coding scipt like that thnx all for your respons
Sorry about the old page. It was moved and the redirect was not working. That has been corrected and you will now be taken to the community page with the sample "Advanced Method" code. Hope it helps. However, the simplest method (similar to the thumbshots code) is just a copy/paste of a single line of code once you get logged in. Hope it helps. Best regards, Brandon
You'll need an outside component as you can't do that purely with PHP, basically you'd need some kind of executable that can 'render' the look of a page and save it as an image, PHP could execute that executable but far as how to write the actual executable, I don't know. If you end up using thumbshots I recommend actually pulling the image thru PHP and caching the results, that way you're not doing more than one query to the thumbshot site for the same url.
It could have changed but the last time I saw their Terms of Service, caching locally was not allowed. Read the fine print first. -The Brandon