how to Execute PhantomJS from PHP

Question

I want to execute PhantomJS from PHP on localhost.

Can any body explain how to execute PhantomJS from PHP and what package I should download from phantomjs.org?

Answer 1

• download the PhantomJS binary, upload it somewhere and make it executable (chmod +x)
• if you are going to make screenshots, setup fontconfig (this is pretty specific to my config but the goal is to make sure to have at least some fonts on your system)
• run the following in PHP:
  $response = exec('/path/to/phantomjs myscript.js');