Bash terminal colors lost after php passthru()

[xandrani]

Hi

 

I am using git (with colors). This command outputs colorized output to a bash terminal. However when I run this command using PHP, e.g. using passthru('git diff') the colors are lost.

 

I know that colors can be output using PHP so this should be possible (e.g. here's a rough idea: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3292)

I can only assume that PHP is filtering out non-printable characters?

 

Any ideas how to fix this issue?