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GtkMozEmbed Screenshot: Take page screenshots on Linux with Mozilla widget

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gtkmozembed-shot 0.1.0GNU General Publi...5.1.0PHP 5, Graphics, Unix, GUI
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This class can be used to take screenshots of Web pages using Mozilla embedded GTK widget.

It creates a graphical user interface window using PHP-GTK 2 that contains a GtkMozEmbed browser widget.

The browser gadget is pointed to a given URL and the class saves the page as to a image file in PNG format when the page stops loading.

The class works in Linux/UNIX and other platforms that support the GtkMozEmbed widget.

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Some sites need to generate screenshots of Web site pages to show how certain pages look site.

There have been solutions that use Internet Explorer to load and capture Web site page screenshots using PHP. However, such solutions only run on Windows.

This class provides an alternative solution to take screenshots of pages that can run on Linux and platforms that support PHP-GTK 2 and the GtkMozEmbed widget.

This way it can generate screenshots of what a page looks like on Firefox or other browsers based on the Gecko engine.

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To get this running you need a linux box and php5 with Gtk and GtkMozEmbed installed. First install this packages: php5-cli php5-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxul-dev Then go to http://gtk.php.net/download.php and get the php-gtk-2.x.x source Extract it in a place of your choice tar -xzvf php-gtk-2.x.x.tar.gz Run ./buildconf Due to a nice little bug ( http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44921 ) you need to apply the following patch http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f60e601e7 Run ./configure and enable mozembed ( --with-mozembed ) Run make Run make install as root Edit your php.ini and load php_gtk2 extension Try to enjoy the script :| A video with this in action can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIvpnYflIk This is a php inplementation of a script in python by Matt Biddulph ( http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000055.html )

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Plain text file GtkMozEmbedScreenshot.php Class Screenshot class
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