Generating Page Preview

[Justin]

I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
how would I go about it?

TIA,
Justin

[muldoonaz]

Justin wrote:

I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
how would I go about it?

TIA,
Justin

have you thought about using iframes?

[Justin]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:51:17 GMT, muldoonaz wrote:

Justin wrote:

I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
how would I go about it?

TIA,
Justin

have you thought about using iframes?

It's an idea, but I'd like it to be a scaled down version that won't
require scrolling to view.

[Zoe Brown]

"Justin" <cR********@EhToHtIpSop.com> wrote in message
news:51****************************@40tude.net...

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:51:17 GMT, muldoonaz wrote:

Justin wrote:

I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
how would I go about it?

TIA,
Justin

have you thought about using iframes?

It's an idea, but I'd like it to be a scaled down version that won't
require scrolling to view.

it can do, swap the style sheet for a "mini.css" which uses smaller fonts,
tables, images ect...interesting idea actually.

Failing that you would have to create a jpeg for each of the pages that
*could" be created and load that. I have done this in the past but only
where there have been 10 or possibilities.

[Sandman]

In article <1l******************************@40tude.net>,
Justin <cR********@EhToHtIpSop.com> wrote:

I'm currently working on a management type of interface for a website.
It's a PHP site with a MySQL backend. What I'd like to do is have a
text box for editing text on the site, as well as a few other things,
and then be able to generate a preview of the site. The preview is
where I'm lost. I'm not even sure if it's possible, but what I'd like
is either an image generated from the URL or a way to quickly and easily
render the page but on a much smaller scale. Is this possible? If so,
how would I go about it?

This isn't possible using PHP. Basically what you want is a thumbnail of how
the page will look *when rendered* by a web browser.

PHP doesn't know *anything* about how the resulting page will look and can't
generate such preview.

But are you managing content or the entire site (i.e. design, menu et all) with
this script? I am the author of a CMS system myself and whenever a user in my
system edits a text and submits, it will be shown in the correct context on the
site and will thuis be fully previewable - only in true, live, full-scale.

What kind of extra step are you trying to avoid? Why not have the user switch
between a view and edit mode of their site?

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