PHP Manual: Captures the whole screen

GdImagefalse imagegrabscreen()

Grabs a screenshot of the whole screen.

Note:
This function is only available on Windows.

This function has no parameters.

Returns an image object on success, false on failure.

Version	Description
8.0.0	On success, this function returns a GDImage instance now; previously, a resource was returned.

Example #1 imagegrabscreen example

This example demonstrates how to take a screenshot of the current screen and save it as a png image.

<?php
$im = imagegrabscreen();
imagepng($im, "myscreenshot.png");
imagedestroy($im);
?>

imagegrabscreen