Thumbnail creation

PHP
1

I want to give url of a page as parameter and create a screenshot or thumbnail of that page which should be displayed in search result for the pages. Can anyone guide me how to do this?

2

PHP doesn’t have HTML render engine. It is server software, not client.
So, nothing to do with PHP programming. Use some third-party service or application

3

If you search this section of the forum there have been a few posts about this.
I tried the code out below from one of the replys that works but you will need to create the thumbnail part. From memory it will only work on a windows setup? But you will have to test it yourself:

<?php
$browser = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application");
$handle = $browser->HWND;
$browser->Visible = true;
$browser->Navigate("http://www.google.com");
/* Still working? */
while ($browser->Busy) {com_message_pump(4000);
}$im = imagegrabwindow($handle, 0);
$browser->Quit();
imagepng($im, "iesnap.png");
imagedestroy($im);
?>
4

Where will this code save the thumbnail images ? How can I store them in database and retrieve later so that it will be fast to render in page? Is there possibility to use ajax though I don’t have any idea about it ?:S

5

That code will save the thumbnail as iesnap.png into the current directory.

6

Displaying images on the web page is quite different question.
Though I can say that storing images in the database will slow page render, not make it fast.