On his blog today, Joshua Eichorn describes his method for creating, with some handy server-side utilities, a thumbnail representation of all of the blogs linked to by planet-php.

Updating my blog today got me thinking about what the other planet-php blog out there looked like. I was in a great spot to do a quick overview since I happened to have a script that makes the thumbnails using an embedded mozilla (this script is a long story but sufice it to say this was a nice simple one in python, but I have have a little c++ app that uses mozilla to make pdfs).

It's not done with PHP (I don't even know of a project out there that could take a 'screenshot' of a webpage with PHP), but the result is still pretty cool....

(Also of note, Joshua has also redesigned things at his blog.)