How to enable color for PHP CLI?

First we use an escape character so we can actually define a output color. This is done with \033 (\e). Then we open the color statement with [31m. Red in this case.

The "some colored text" will be the text outputted in a different color. And after that we have to close the color statement with \033[0m.

php -r 'echo "\033[31m some colored text \033[0m some white text \n";'

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For lazier

function colorLog($str, $type = 'i'){    switch ($type) {        case 'e': //error            echo "\033[31m$str \033[0m\n";        break;        case 's': //success            echo "\033[32m$str \033[0m\n";        break;        case 'w': //warning            echo "\033[33m$str \033[0m\n";        break;          case 'i': //info            echo "\033[36m$str \033[0m\n";        break;              default:        # code...        break;    }}

After doing some experiments, I made these codes:

function formatPrint(array $format=[],string $text = '') {  $codes=[    'bold'=>1,    'italic'=>3, 'underline'=>4, 'strikethrough'=>9,    'black'=>30, 'red'=>31, 'green'=>32, 'yellow'=>33,'blue'=>34, 'magenta'=>35, 'cyan'=>36, 'white'=>37,    'blackbg'=>40, 'redbg'=>41, 'greenbg'=>42, 'yellowbg'=>44,'bluebg'=>44, 'magentabg'=>45, 'cyanbg'=>46, 'lightgreybg'=>47  ];  $formatMap = array_map(function ($v) use ($codes) { return $codes[$v]; }, $format);  echo "\e[".implode(';',$formatMap).'m'.$text."\e[0m";}function formatPrintLn(array $format=[], string $text='') {  formatPrint($format, $text); echo "\r\n";}//Examples:formatPrint(['blue', 'bold', 'italic','strikethrough'], "Wohoo");formatPrintLn(['yellow', 'italic'], " I'm invicible");formatPrintLn(['yellow', 'bold'], "I'm invicible");

Just copy and paste the code above and... Enjoy :)