imagegrabwindow() and imagegrabscreen()
Posted on July 13, 2007
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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January 22nd, 2008 - 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.
March 5th, 2012 - 01:36
imagegrabwindow uses COM
March 5th, 2012 - 01:38
That is correct! Well done!