Is there any way to get a certain thumbnail generated by PHP from a live given URI? I also would want to do this for the live on click image.
Form what i understand you want to generate thumbnail of a given website via its URL ???
If that is what you want then Website screenshots using PHP would help you
I prefer the Pure PHP option if you are using a windows server but if not then you would have to use 3rd party APU like http://www.thumbalizr.com/apitools.php
Another method is using HTML5 Canvas or Converting the site to PDF -> PNG or any image format
I hope this information helps
Thanks :)