PNG from CSS using PHP?

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I'd like to ask whether its possible to take a bit of CSS on a page with a PHP extension, and add the PHP header to define the page as a PNG, and have a dynamic image? From what I've heard this isn't possible, but if it isn't, is there a way easier than the conventional method of creating a PHP image?

Edit* To elaborate, I want to do something like draw a bordered 200x200p box in CSS with styling and HTML, and have this HTML/CSS box on a .PHP page, and get this page to become a PNG image with the .PNG extension using the PHP header tag.

Thank You!

Karan

Your question is a bit unclear of what you want to do. You can dynamically generate CSS with PHP as well as you can dynamically serve a PNG image with PHP. — hakre
– hakre, Commented Dec 26, 2011 at 19:50
The most common use for dynamic PHP-created images are captchas. There are a lot of howtos and tutorials out there, just google a little bit. — Corubba
– Corubba, Commented Dec 26, 2011 at 19:55
If i understand you right, this might be helpful for you. stackoverflow.com/questions/757675/… — Corubba
– Corubba, Commented Dec 26, 2011 at 19:57

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:27:39Z

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You can make use of wkhtmltopdf which can convert html to pdf using webkit (qtwebkit) which supports CSS properly. There even exists a PHP binding for it.

You can then convert the PDF file to a PNG (e.g. with ImageMagick) and serve it from within PHP.

Related: Website screenshots using PHP

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:27

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answered Dec 26, 2011 at 20:06

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unicornication Over a year ago

I'll make sure to try it out tomorrow. Cheers, hakre :)

egerardus · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-26 19:58:40Z

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If I understand your question properly, I am not sure how this would be possible using only PHP but you could use ImageMagick on server side to convert the HTML page to a png.

answered Dec 26, 2011 at 19:58

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unicornication Over a year ago

I'll take a look at Imagemagick, haven't seen it before! Thanks for your answer :) Cheers

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