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Imagegrab through php on locked computer

Hello,

I have the following code for taking screenshots of a website using php. The problem is that I want these screenshots to be taken through a remote computer (a dedicated server) and the image is not taken if I don't have the computer open with the remote desktop. The user is logged in but if the window of the remote desktop is not opened on my computer the screenshot appears black. I tried even to schedule the script to run from the remote computer but that didn't work as well.

Any ideas?

$Browser = new COM('InternetExplorer.Application');
$Browserhandle = $Browser->HWND;
$Browser->Visible = true;
$Browser->Fullscreen = true;
$Browser->Navigate('http://www.mysite.com');
while ($Browser->Busy) {
com_message_pump(8000);
}
$img = imagegrabwindow($Browserhandle, 0);
$Browser->Quit();
imagejpeg($img, 'screenshot.jpg', 100);

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Forgot to mention that the page I want to take screenshots of, has flash also. I tried the wkhtmltoimag solution and some API's for screenshots and didn't work.

Any other way, even command line could work for me if you have anything in mind.

Thank you very much!

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