Adding Current date to smart object template as text

[_Brendon_Dugan_]

Hello, I recently learned about smart objects, and my wife and I created a smart object for our daily photoblog (every day we have a new picture for the day, surrounded by a black frame with the date in white text on the bottom). Now all we have to format our pictures correctly is resize them, replace the object in the template with the new picture, and then re-do the text. What I was wondering is whether or not we could remove that last step by scripting Photoshop to insert the current date into a standardly formatted text field. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

In the Exchange there used to be a Script available that added filename and date as a type layer, You probably can get he relevant part out of that:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1044198
Im not very experienced in Scripting myself but I think You should be able to include the resize and the creation of a black border into the script too.

[_xbytor_]

Assuming the name of the text layer is 'Filename Layer', this should work:

function main() {
if (app.documents.length == 0) {
return;
}
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var fnameLayer = doc.layers.getByName("Filename Layer");
fnameLayer.textItem.contents = doc.name;
};
main();

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