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";'
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; }}