Generating ANSI (or ASCII) command line colors, or terminal colors, or whatever you call them, is easy with PHP. As I have said in my previous post, ANSI Command Line Colors under Windows, having colored text in the command line is a great help for spotting error or success messages. So here’s a quick and dirty function in PHP to do just that.
<?php
function colorize($text, $status) {
$out = "";
switch($status) {
case "SUCCESS":
$out = "[42m"; //Green background
break;
case "FAILURE":
$out = "[41m"; //Red background
break;
case "WARNING":
$out = "[43m"; //Yellow background
break;
case "NOTE":
$out = "[44m"; //Blue background
break;
default:
throw new Exception("Invalid status: " . $status);
}
return chr(27) . "$out" . "$text" . chr(27) . "[0m";
}
echo colorize("Your command was successfully executed...", "SUCCESS");
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
http://php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt
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