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Pierre: Interbase, fbsql, sybase, smnp, do you need it?

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:30:26 +0200

It is primary a call for new maintainers. And we need testers as well so yes, your help is more than welcome.

Which extension are you interested in?

pabloj: Interbase, fbsql, sybase, smnp, do you need it?

nospam@example.com (pabloj) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:18:51 +0200

I think you should issue a “call for testers” and post clear instructions on how to contribute (run a test suite), I’d consider contributing but don’t really know where to start and I’m a programming illiterate

Pierre: Interbase, fbsql, sybase, smnp, do you need it?

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:25:04 +0200

Sorry, I did not notice that I actually posted it

Now the post is completed and may make more sense, hopefully

bramp: Interbase, fbsql, sybase, smnp, do you need it?

nospam@example.com (bramp) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:44:18 +0200

I need snmp,

thank you very much.

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Pierre: Screen capture with PHP and GD

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:18:00 +0200

Can you show me some code?

Paul Derbyshire: Screen capture with PHP and GD

nospam@example.com (Paul Derbyshire) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:01:30 +0200

I have apache running on Vista, set the service allowed to interact with desktop. It creates the com object for IE, but it pops up with interactive services popup msg.

Apparently it runs it as a system process which is seperated from desktop. I do get the image of the browser saved, but I’d actually like to keep the window open to do some more stuff with it, but alas, can’t access that window.

Also imagegrabscreen() still just gives a black image.

Pierre: Screen capture with PHP and GD

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:55:16 +0200

I can’t say what’s wrong on your remote host without seeing its configuration, versions or SP.

Feel free to send more details if you still need a hand for this problem

Sascha: Screen capture with PHP and GD

nospam@example.com (Sascha) — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:51:45 +0200

Additional comment:

I was wrong when I said that the CLI script call created a screenshot – I copied my local files to the remote machine, called the script and the file seemed to be created; instead it hadn’t been overwritten because of access restrictions … as a result, imagegrabscreen() never worked on my windows 2000 server

Sascha: Screen capture with PHP and GD

nospam@example.com (Sascha) — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:04:06 +0200

Hi Pierre,

imagegrabwindow() doesn’t work on my local computer and on the remote server, although I don’t get any error messages at all from my local test system.

What’s even stranger: imagegrabscreen() works correctly on my local system, but it still creates a blank image on the remote development platfrom. When I use imagegrabscreen() from a shell php script on the remote machine, the screenshot is correctly created and saved. I am absolutely clueless why my local and remote system behave differently …

Pierre: Screen capture with PHP and GD

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:47:14 +0200

I’m not sure what’s wrong sorry. It works on all our boxes here and by dozen users out there.

Can you try using grabwindow with IE or any other app?

Pierre: PHP Test Fest Munich

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:53 +0200

If you don’t show me any code or provide no information about what goes wrong, no , I can’t help sorry :=)

satinder: PHP Test Fest Munich

nospam@example.com (satinder) — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:14:27 +0200

I’m having some problem taking a snapshot of the screen using imagegrabwindow command, can you please suggest a way out for that?

Sascha: Screen capture with PHP and GD

nospam@example.com (Sascha) — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:17:15 +0200

Hi Pierre,

imagegrabscreen() is a great addon to PHP, but somehow I can’t use it with my current webserver configuration and that’s why I would like to ask for your support:

I first created a threeliner to grab a screenshot and save it to disk; I called it directly via cli and it worked like a charm.
Being convinced that the script would also work from within my webserver, I altered one of my monitoring scripts to grab the screen, save it and show the image on a web page, but all I got was a white (not black like mentioned in other posts) image!

function os_show_screen (){
	$im = imagegrabscreen();
	unlink(&#8216;temp/screen.png&#8217;);
	imagepng($im, &#8216;temp/screen.png&#8217;);
	print &#8216;&lt;img src=\&#8216;temp/screen.png?&#8217;.time().&#8217;\&#8217;&gt;&#8221;;<br />
}

I checked that both IIS and the WWW Publishingservice were allowed to interact with the desktop, but that didn’t help.

My current setup is as follows:
Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5 with ZendCore for Oracle running PHP as FastCGI

Do you have a clue what would cause this behaviour?

Thanks a lot (also for the great contribution)!!

P.S. The code is a bit messed up but I hope you’ll still see how the script works.
P.P.S. The code highlighter should end with [/geshi] instead of [/lang]

Pierre: Screen capture with PHP and GD

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:34:40 +0200

Have you added the user running your webserver to the desktop group?

See the notes here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegrabscreen.php