web page capture / compression

[Steve High]

I'm working on an app where a page is created dynamically via a CMS,
and I need to save the page similar to the way you can save a
'complete web page' via a browser. I need to save the graphics,
links, embedded applets, flash, etc.

Is there any way that I can use native PHP code to 'capture' the web
page and maintain the functionality of the page?

[Justin Koivisto]

Steve High wrote:

I'm working on an app where a page is created dynamically via a CMS,
and I need to save the page similar to the way you can save a
'complete web page' via a browser. I need to save the graphics,
links, embedded applets, flash, etc.

Is there any way that I can use native PHP code to 'capture' the web
page and maintain the functionality of the page?

AFAIK, not unless you count using system() or exec() ;) in that case,
you could call up wget to do the capture and saving of files.

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[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 09/27/2004 06:00 PM, Steve High wrote:

I'm working on an app where a page is created dynamically via a CMS,
and I need to save the page similar to the way you can save a
'complete web page' via a browser. I need to save the graphics,
links, embedded applets, flash, etc.

Is there any way that I can use native PHP code to 'capture' the web
page and maintain the functionality of the page?

You may want to try this HTTP client class to retrieve the current page
HTML. If you need to login the class can also handle the eventual
cookies and redirection if needed. Than you need to parse the HTML and
figure which other elements you need to retrieve and save.

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
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[Steve High]

sc****@comcast.net (Steve High) wrote in message news:<52**************************@posting.google. com>...

I'm working on an app where a page is created dynamically via a CMS,
and I need to save the page similar to the way you can save a
'complete web page' via a browser. I need to save the graphics,
links, embedded applets, flash, etc.

Is there any way that I can use native PHP code to 'capture' the web
page and maintain the functionality of the page?

Hmmm. I figured out how to do it...so i will post here in case anyone
else has the same problem.
I used cURL to grab the url as a file stream, then parsed the
<object>, <img>, and <applet> tags to look for the source. I then
created a dynamic 'images' directory and an 'objects' directory where
the images, swfs, and applet jars are stored.
Then i replaced the source in the file stream to point to my new
directories. Finally, i bundled the files and folders with php
compression utility to make one zip-readable file...

it's a lot of jerry-rigging, but it works pretty well.
anyone interested in the source should email me.

[tonyreynolds]

Steve -

I'm looking for a compression utility I can use from PHP on a server that
gives me WinZip-compatible files for convenient user download.

I noticed in an old post of your a passing reference to how you
"...bundled the files and folders with php compression utility"

Could you give me a few more details?

Many thanks

Tony Reynolds

[JDS]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:53:55 -0400, tonyreynolds wrote:

I'm looking for a compression utility I can use from PHP on a server that
gives me WinZip-compatible files for convenient user download.

On a Linux host? Try "zip"

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