[SOLVED] Color the CMD line

[benphelps]

I have checked everywhere I know on the interwebs looking for a function to color the CMD line output.  I know it can be done, I have done it before, but I lost my snippets folder and now I need the function.

 

Does anyone here on PHPFreaks have this function, or know how it can be done?  It wasn't alot of code, maybe 15 lines in total.

[benphelps]

I don't usually bump things, but I really really need this function.  With limited knowledge of the Linux CMD line, I have no idea where to start.

 

If someone could help me, I can offer (good) hosting (Web or VPS) in exchange.

 

 

(if me offering something in return is out of the TOS for this forum category, feel free to move it)

[kenrbnsn]

I don't even know what you're asking, so I can begin to tell you an answer. Please explain it more (and better).

 

Ken

[benphelps]

I'm not sure how I could explain it any better.

 

Instead of plain white text in the command line, color the output.

 

I start a php script from the command line that prints out some text, I would like to color that text.

 

I have done this before with a simple function, maybe 15 lines of code max.  I have just lost my snippets folder, so in that, I lost the function.  I found the function on the a blog, which I found via. StumbleUpon. I have tried (for days now) to find this snippet, or any other snippet that might work with no luck.

[JonnoTheDev]

Heres the colour codes http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/113860

$output = "Hello World\n";
print "\033[31m".$output;

Should be really easy to write a function. I use the above to print red text. I then use the following function to clear the screen so you get a blink effect when a process is going through a loop i.e. Cleaning database records.

function clearscreen() {
$clearscreen = chr(27)."[H".chr(27)."[2J";
print $clearscreen;
}

[benphelps]

THANK YOU!

 

Here is the function I wrote to make it easy.  I'm sure this can be compressed down to a smaller function, but it does the job for me.

 

function cmdColor($text, $color = "32"){
$color = strtolower($color);
switch($color){
	case "30":
	case "black":
		$prefx = "\033[30m";
	break;
	case "31":
	case "red":
		$prefx = "\033[31m";
	break;
	case "32":
	case "green":
		$prefx = "\033[32m";
	break;
	case "33":
	case "yellow":
		$prefx = "\033[33m";
	break;
	case "34":
	case "blue":
		$prefx = "\033[34m";
	break;
	case "35":
	case "magenta":
		$prefx = "\033[35m";
	break;
	case "36":
	case "cyan":
		$prefx = "\033[36m";
	break;
	case "37":
	case "white":
		$prefx = "\033[37m";
	break;		
}
print $prefx.$text."\33[0m";
}

 

 

I added "\33[0m" to the end so it sets the color back to default, this way, if the script terms, your not stuck in a colored cmd line.