imagegrabwindow() and imagegrabscreen()

July 13th, 2007
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I stumbled over these two new functions in the PHP CVS today. They are only available in Windows as they use COM, but interesting non the least.

imagegrabwindow — Captures a window
resource imagegrabwindow ( int $window [, int $client_area] )

Grabs a window or its client area using a windows handle (HWND property in COM instance)

imagegrabscreen — Captures the whole screen
resource imagegrabscreen ( void )

Grabs a screenshot of the whole screen.

See the manual pages for examples.

Update: Pierre discusses it on his blog aswell.

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One Response to “imagegrabwindow() and imagegrabscreen()”

  1. PierreNo Gravatar Says:
    January 22nd, 2008 at 12:47

    Hi!

    The functions do not use COM, only my examples as it is one of the only way to actually control an application on Windows from a standard PHP install :-)

    The functions use the win32 API to fetch the bitmap of a given window or screen.

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