imagegrabscreen
This function was painfully slow when I was testing it on my machine. It took about 2 or 3 seconds for it to return an image. It also fails to work if the Apache service doesn't have access to "Interact with the desktop".
imagegrabwindow
(PHP 5 >= 5.2.2)
imagegrabwindow — Captures a window
Description
resource imagegrabwindow
( int $window
[, int $client_area
] )
Grabs a window or its client area using a windows handle (HWND property in COM instance)
Parameters
- window
-
The HWND window ID.
- client_area
-
Include the client area of the application window.
Return Values
Returns an image resource identifier on success, FALSE on failure.
Errors/Exceptions
E_NOTICE is issued if window_handle is invalid window handle. E_WARNING is issued if the Windows API is too old.
Examples
Example #1 imagegrabwindow() example
Capture a window (IE for example)
<?php
$browser = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application");
$handle = $browser->HWND;
$browser->Visible = true;
$im = imagegrabwindow($handle);
$browser->Quit();
imagepng($im, "iesnap.png");
imagedestroy($im);
?>
Capture a window (IE for example) but with its content
<?php
$browser = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application");
$handle = $browser->HWND;
$browser->Visible = true;
$browser->Navigate("http://www.libgd.org");
/* Still working? */
while ($browser->Busy) {
com_message_pump(4000);
}
$im = imagegrabwindow($handle, 0);
$browser->Quit();
imagepng($im, "iesnap.png");
imagedestroy($im);
?>
Notes
Note: This function is only available on Windows.
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User Contributed Notesimagegrabwindow
Xeon
29-Sep-2007 11:01
29-Sep-2007 11:01
nico ->atdot
29-Sep-2007 11:37
29-Sep-2007 11:37
If you just want to take a screenshot of a website WITHOUT the ugly IE window around it, the easiest way is setting the "Fullscreen" property to TRUE.
$browser->Fullscreen = true;
This is basically the same as pressing F11 once the browser is open, so you just get the actual website.