<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Captures the whole screen</title>
</head>
<body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.imagegif.html">imagegif</a></div>
<div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.imagegrabwindow.html">imagegrabwindow</a></div>
<div class="up"><a href="ref.image.html">GD and Image Functions</a></div>
<div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div>
</div><hr /><div id="function.imagegrabscreen" class="refentry">
<div class="refnamediv">
<h1 class="refname">imagegrabscreen</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.2.2)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">imagegrabscreen</span> — <span class="dc-title">Captures the whole screen</span></p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.imagegrabscreen-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>imagegrabscreen</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
)</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Grabs a screenshot of the whole screen.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.imagegrabscreen-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns an image resource identifier on success, <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.imagegrabscreen-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<p class="para">
<div class="example" id="example-3251">
<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>imagegrabscreen()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
<div class="example-contents"><p>
This example demonstrates how to take a screenshot of the current screen
and save it as a png image.
</p></div>
<div class="example-contents">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$im </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagegrabscreen</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagepng</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"myscreenshot.png"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">imagedestroy</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$im</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
</div>
</div>
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.imagegrabscreen-notes">
<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
<p class="para">
This function is only available on Windows.
</p>
</p></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.imagegrabscreen-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagegrabwindow.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">imagegrabwindow()</a> - Captures a window</span></li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.imagegif.html">imagegif</a></div>
<div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.imagegrabwindow.html">imagegrabwindow</a></div>
<div class="up"><a href="ref.image.html">GD and Image Functions</a></div>
<div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div>
</div></body></html>
