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How to take a screenshot of a website using PHP?

Hello everyone! I'm a beginner PHP developer and I've run into a task that has me stumped. I need to take a screenshot of a website in PHP. The client wants that when a URL is entered into a form, a page thumbnail (preview) is automatically created. I thought this would be simple, but it turns out that standard PHP functions (like `file_get_contents` or `imagecreatefromjpeg`) don't work for this purpose — they only retrieve the HTML code, not a visual image of the page. I tried using a simple approach: load the page and save it as HTML, but that doesn't produce an image. Here's my code: ```php $url = 'https://example.com'; $html = file_get_contents($url); file_put_contents('screenshot.html', $html); ``` The problem is that the browser doesn't render the page. I've heard that there are se