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Running Photoshop scripts from PHP?

I am creating a web service that revolves around users creating custom image files from the details they enter into a web page. I have PSD files and accompanying scripts, but how can I run Photoshop scripts directly from my PHP code?

I've looked into using blobs, but from what I can see, I can only use them to perform recorded actions in a file.

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It is possible, but you need to provide more details on what you want to achieve. Will this server be Mac or Windows? Something that was able to bypass Photoshop.

Here's a built-in example of running a PS script with Photoshop from PHP on a Mac in a terminal.

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


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

use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
use Symfony\Component\Process\ProcessBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;

$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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It looks like the only way to do this is to record the action loading the script and create a Droplet from the action, then execute it from PHP passing the PSD as a parameter. It's not as elegant as I wanted, but there didn't seem to be any other suggestions.



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