Setting PHP Command Line Colors
Dec 14, 2011
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I’m not entirely certain why this escaped me for so long, but it’s remarkably easy to set terminal colors with PHP.
Simply echo the escape/color character \033, followed by the bash color definition and your output. For reference, here is a listing of bash colors. So, for example, if we want to make something blue text, do the following:
echo "\033[34m" . 'here is blue text' . "\033[0m\n";
This simply sets the blue color, adds the blue text, and then resets the color to default, and makes a new line.