PHP : Creating image from html table

Question

Can I get some sample code in PHP for converting an html table to image form(.gif,.jpg or any format)? I am using XAMPP on Windows.
Yes, the table is coming from the database.

Answer 1

you like to have an screenshot from an html-table / html-code? Thats not possible with php only. You need a webbrowser or an html-renderer and a program do make an screenshot.

look at http://www.thumbshots.org/ (onlineservice)

or http://www.intellitamper.com/webswoon/ (python tool.)

Answer 2

At first glance, that's quite a tall order. Here are some pointers:

• You'll probably want to get cosy with the GD library

Where is this table coming from? If it's coming from your database originally, this would be easier to work with. Otherwise...

• You'll need to get the remote page (I recommend curl)
• Then you'll need to extract the table data

The complexity of the second step really depends on how similar each page and table is going to be. Regex is probably going to be useful though.

Hope this helps,

Tom

Answer 3

The best way is to convert first in a .ps, then jpg, pdf, or whatelse you need. I can suggest you 2 links: html2ps

wkhtmltopdf

Tested both, and both works perfectly... html2ps is little slow (~30 sec for a 3 pages pdf, dunno about jpg) but more customizable. Give them a look