On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 19:54 +0100, Simon Schick wrote: > Hi, Nibin > > I wonder what you'd call a <website preview> ... > Do you mean a screenshot or the HTML-response from the server, specially > prepared (sounds like you want to create a proxy ;))? > > Bye > Simon > > 2012/2/29 Nibin V M <nibi...@gmail.com> > > > No..what I am trying to write a "website preview" plugin attached to a > > control panel.. :) > > > > since I am a newbie, I don't know how to achieve this without modifying > > hosts file ( I am basically a linux sys admin ) :) > > > > @Martin - I will check it. Since I am a beginner ( of course, just started > > to learn PHP today ) I need to start from scratch. If yo could provide some > > sample code, it will be great :) > > > > thanks for your input guys.. > > > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Ashley Sheridan > > <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk>wrote: > > > > > ** > > > On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 19:29 +0100, Matijn Woudt wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Nibin V M <nibi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am very new to PHP coding. I am trying to achieve a task via PHP, > > > > regarding which I have been googling around for a few days and now > > come up > > > > with emtpy hands! > > > > > > > > Ok, what I need to write is a "website preview script". That is I need > > to > > > > display a website hosted on serverA and pointing elsewhere, from > > ServerA ( > > > > via curl possibly ). > > > > > > > > For example: I have configured techsware.in and google.com on ServerA > > ( of > > > > course google.com pointing to their IP ). I need to display the > > contents of > > > > google.com "on my server" , if I call > > > > http://techsware.in/google.phpwhich > > > > has some curl coding in it! Note, what I have is the domain name ( > > > > google.com ) and the IP on which it is hosted on serverA to achieve > > this. > > > > Any way to achieve this? > > > > > > > > I can achieve this if I put <my IP> google.com in /etc/hosts file ( > > its > > > > Linux ). But I need to run this script for normal users as well, which > > > > won't have super user privileges and thus unable to edit /etc/hosts > > file. > > > > So I want to specify somewhere in the PHP script that, google.compoints > > > > to > > > > <my IP>. I can do this with this little script. > > > > > > > > > > How about just doing a str_replace[1]? > > > > > > - Matijn > > > > > > [1]http://www.php.net/str_replace > > > > > > > > > Why can't you use an iframe, or are you trying to offer this other > > > websites content as if it were on your own site? If so, I would first > > check > > > to see if you're actually allowed to do that, as that will bring up > > quite a > > > few copyright issues otherwise, which can be very expensive. > > > > > > -- > > > Thanks, > > > Ash > > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards.... > > > > Nibin. > > > > http://TechsWare.in > >
It does sound more like a proxy than a preview script. What about using something like this: http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegrabscreen.php I've never used it, but on first appearances it looks like it should produce the preview you require. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
