README.md

Yii Phantomjs WebpageScreenshot

The Yii PhantomjsWebpageScreenshot extension that allows to generate screenshots of web pages on the fly. It uses the headless webkit PhantomJS as a capture-engine.

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

Requirements:

• Yii Framework 1.1.14 or above
• Composer

Install

Via composer:

$ composer require dotzero/yii-phantomjs-screenshot

Add vendor path to your configuration file, attach component and set properties.

'aliases' => array(
    ...
    'vendor' => realpath(__DIR__ . '/../../vendor'),
),
'components' => array(
    ...
    'screenshot' => array(
        'class' => 'vendor.dotzero.yii-phantomjs-screenshot.EWebpageScreenshot',
        //'phantomjs' => '/bin/phantomjs',
        //'width' => 640,
        //'height' => 480,
    ),
),

Usage:

$screenshot = Yii::app()->screenshot;
$screenshot->width = 640;
$screenshot->height = 480;

$url = 'http://www.google.com';
$outfile = Yii::getPathOfAlias('application.runtime') . '/' . uniqid() . '.png';

$screenshot->capture($url, $outfile);

License

Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php