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[nycphp-talk] Printing Colorful Arrays In The Terminal...

Darryle Steplight dsteplight at gmail.com
Thu May 31 12:21:36 EDT 2012


One more thing, this works well from the command line, but if you want
to make it work from within a PHP script that output data to the
terminal then remove the  "-e";.

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Darryle Steplight
<dsteplight at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chris ,
>
> That's exactly what I was looking for. For anyone else who needs help
> with this, here are my working examples, with a little explanation.
>
> echo -e "\033[34m Contact List \033[0m";    <-  The "34m" part makes
> Contact List a dark  blue color and  the  "0m" at the end  stops the
> coloring. If I don't change it to 0, my prompt will also be  dark
> blue.
>
> If I use 31m instead of 34m, then Contact List will be red, instead of
> dark blue,
>
> echo -e "\033[31m Contact List \033[0m". I hope that helps someone.
>
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Chris Snyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://pear.php.net/Console_Color
>>>
>>
>> If you just need a quick hack and you're using bash, this will help:
>> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/colorizing.html
>>
>> Note that where it says \E in the examples you should replace with
>> \033 to get an ESC character.
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