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I was wondering if there's a way of "coloring" the text coming out of php's stdout... (on ubuntu) Basically I've got a scrapping script I made but I'd like to make it look nicer using different colors for different things.

http://cfgfactory.com/images/i/1de3b_colorz.png

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You can use the Jm_Console package. It's a library that I wrote on my own.

Features:

  • It supports console colors, console text decorations and has additional features like cursor positioning, or line / screen erasing (clear).

  • You can install it using the pear installer or composer or just download the sources

  • It will work on all Linux or Mac systems and on Windows using ansicon

  • It is well tested and released under the BSD-3 license.

enjoy :)

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Use Console Color extension from PEAR

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You need to embed ANSI control sequences in your output to change the terminal color:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

This generally involves the control sequence (ESC(0x1b) + [) and a formatting character, such as ESC + [ + 32 + m

Note that this should be optional, ideally detecting if the stdout is not a terminal and turn off color automatically, as it makes using the output with scripts and log files difficult.

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