PHP and Server Side Website Thumbnail Generation

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    Hey guys, you've been awesome helping in the past, so I know you'll be able to smite this problem in no time.

    I'm trying to find an app or some kind of method with PHP that will generate a thumbnail of a given website (whether it's on DMOZ or not) on the fly. Preferably it's built into PHP somehow, and can run on a shared-server environment.

    This is the last puzzle piece to a great app I'm building for version 1.0, so you can imagine how anxious I am to find it!

    Anyway, help is appreciated in advance, thanks!
    Scott
     
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    [ mistake ]

    Sorry :)
     
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    Yeah, exactly. Website thumbnails. :)

    That's awesome, except I want to make it cross-compatible with linux and windows servers. This is definitely helpful for other people wanting to do the same thing though.

    And yeah-- I'll let you guys know if I find anything interesting. We all know how bad it sucks to wait for images from websnapr, or to be limited to the DMOZ images with thumbshots.org, so I imagine this will be very helpful.

    Thanks man.
     
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    http://browsershots.org/

    its a very nice site and super nice tool .

    they use python ...and i know python can be executed on linux ...

    you can try to make it work ... but gooood luck :p

    i dont know if this is the actual source code : http://v02.browsershots.org/trac/browser/

    let me know ...if anything work with u

    http://v02.browsershots.org/trac/wiki/HowToInstallShotServer (HOW TO INSTALL)

    I Like there last sentence lool

     
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    Wow.. that seems awesome. I bet that will work on my dedicated server. I'll test it out.

    I would, however, like to find something that works on a shared hosting environment if anyone's still up for it.

    For now, I'm going to mess around with this.

    Oh yeah, haha-- I love that last step too. :D

    Hilarious.
     
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    Nice find, commandos! Repped :)
    Thanks a bunch!
     
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