rxx/colors

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Convenient ANSI color printing for PHP CLI apps

v1.0.0 2014-11-02 02:10 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.0

GPL v3.0

• Joe Lafiosca

• cli
• color
• ansi

README

This tiny one-class library provides a set of static methods implementing convenient ANSI color printing for PHP CLI apps via inline formatting codes.

Usage

Simply require the composer package and use the methods found in the class RXX\Colors\Colors.

The most convenient method is Colors::cprint, which requires at least one argument, a string containing color formatting codes. These codes follow the syntax "%fb;", as follows:

• % is a literal percent sign identifying the beginning of the code
• f is a foreground color identifier (see below); if uppercase, it is the bold version of the color; if "x", the code becomes an ANSI reset
• b is an optional background color identifier (see below); if omitted, the background defaults to black
• ; is an optional literal semicolon identifying the end of the code

Color identifiers:

• k = black
• r = red
• g = green
• y = yellow
• b = blue
• m = magenta
• c = cyan
• w = white
• x = reset

By default, cprint echoes the formatted string, appending a newline and an ANSI reset. The method takes optional arguments to toggle these behaviors:

public static function cprint($msg, $appendNewline = true, $autoReset = true, $return = false)

If $appendNewline is true, a newline is appended to the input. If $autoReset is true, an ANSI reset code is appended to the output. If $return is true, the resulting string is returned rather than echoed.

The other methods are either used indirectly by cprint or are for niche purposes. The source is mostly self-explanatory (code language for "I'm too lazy to document this right now"). Mess around with it as you please.

Examples

require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

use RXX\Colors\Colors;

// basic usage
Colors::cprint('%b;various %c;shades %B;of %C;blue');
Colors::cprint('%Rw;red on white');

// bars in blue and red
Colors::cprint('%kB;     %x;     %kR;     ');

// returning a string, without newline
$bright = Colors::cprint('%Y;YELLOW!', false, true, true);
echo "bright '{$bright}'\n";

// continuing color without reset
Colors::cprint('w listing in bright green on blue:%Gb;', true, false);
system('w');

// print newline and reset
Colors::cprint('');

License

Copyright (C) 2013 Joe Lafiosca [e-mail]

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.