How to capture and save screenshots of websites in PHP?

[degroundshaker]

Hi,

This is my very first post in DeniWeb and I would like to start threading with the problem I have been facing from long.

I am working on a blog community site where I want to show screenshots of user's blog in their profile page.

For this purpose I need a set of PHP code which must capture their website's image in any image format in my folder say, images.

I have tried few methods such as taking help from third party services but they keep regulations of free service.

I want to make my own. I'm newbie in PHP and have sound knowledge of it.

But if someone explain me the procedure step by step I can try my best to understand it. Please help me out.

Thanks!

[deceptikon]

Website screenshots using PHP.

[pritaeas]

Try this one, just be sure to cache the results on your server.

[veedeoo]

You can also try this.

[mschroeder]

If you want to do this yourself then I suggest using wkhtmltopdf and/or wkhtmltoimage (http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/). There is also a PHP library already developed to work with these libraries which can be had at https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy