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PHP Webcam Fetch: Capture images from a remote webcam

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Description 

Author

Maik Greubel

This class can capture images from a remote webcam.

It takes the URL of a given remote webcam site and retrieve the current webcam image to a local file.

Retrieved images may be shrunk in case they exceed a give width or height limit.

The class can also check the remote Webcam image date to verify if it is newer than the previously retrieved webcam image.

Multiple webcam images may be archived in a local directory with file names based on the image retrieval timestamp.

Innovation Award
PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
October 2014
Number 4

Prize: One downloadable e-book of choice by O'Reilly		 There are many places in the world that have webcams capturing pictures of the locations where they are installed.

This class provides a solution to efficiently retrieve images from many webcams available throughout the world.

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Nominee: 4x

 

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Example

<?php
/**
 * This file provides a simple test application
 *
 * @author Maik Greubel <greubel@nkey.de>
 */
require 'WebcamFetch.php';

try
{
  // Hopefully this cam is accessible for free (link taken from http://www.webcams.travel/webcam/1306724646-Weather-Acapulco-Icacos)
  $webcam = new WebcamFetch("http://webcamsdemexico.net/acapulco1/live.jpg", 80, "acapulco.jpeg", 300);
  $webcam->checkIsNew();
  $webcam->retrieve();
  $webcam->shrink();
 
  // If you want to use the script in your own website and not in cronjob, you honestly want to send the data to client...
  //$webcam->sendToClient();
}
catch(Exception $ex)
{
  printf("%s occured: %s\n%s\n", get_class($ex), $ex->getMessage(), $ex->getTraceAsString());
}

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