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
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