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Running Photoshop scripts from PHP?

I’m creating a web service which revolves around users creating custom image files from details they enter on the webpage. I have the PSD files completed, along with the accompanying scripts, but how can I launch the Photoshop scripts directly from my PHP code?

I looked into using Droplets, but from what I can see I can only use these to perform recorded actions on a file.

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    Looks like the only way it can be done is to record an action loading the script and create a Droplet out of the action, then execute it from PHP passing the PSD as a parameter. It's not as elegant as I wanted, but there doesn't seem to be any other suggestions.


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    It’s sort of possible, but you’ll need to provide more details about what you wish to accomplish. Would this server be a mac or windows? Something that was capable ofrunning Photoshop.

    Here’s an inline example of executing a PS script with Photoshop from PHP on a mac within Terminal.

    $ php -r "`open -b "com.adobe.Photoshop" myPhotoshopScript.jsx`;"

    Or better yet, use the Symfony Process and Filesystem components to manage this.

    use SymfonyComponentProcessProcess;
use SymfonyComponentProcessProcessBuilder;
use SymfonyComponentFilesystemFilesystem;

$fs = new Filesystem();

$photoshopProcessBuilder = new ProcessBuilder();
$photoshopProcessBuilder->setPrefix('open -b "com.adobe.Photoshop"');

if ($fs->exists($photoshopScriptFile)) {

    $photoshopProcessBuilder->setArguments(array($photoshopScriptFile));

    $photoshopScriptRunnerProcess = $photoshopProcessBuilder->getProcess();
    $photoshopScriptRunnerProcess->run();

    if (!$photoshopScriptRunnerProcess->isSuccessful()) {
        throw new RuntimeException($photoshopScriptRunnerProcess->getErrorOutput());
    }

    // do some other stuff
}
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