README

What is it?

This library is a console helper for ANSI colors, progress bars, and tables.

If you have a console that is not Windows command prompt, and you can have color in your console, this library will help you jazz up your PHP console applications.

Requirements

This library requires PHP >= 7.0.

Readline

If you wish to use Console::readline, Console::promptReadline, or Console::optionsReadline you will need to have the readline module loaded in PHP. On Windows, this requires PHP >= 7.1.0

Installation

The best way to install this console helper is to use Composer.

composer require lupecode/console

How To

tl;dr

See the tests folder.

Basic Print

Console::print('Hello World'); // Will not print a new line at the end
Console::printLine('Hello World'); // Will print a new line at the end

Built-in Styles

Console has a few built-in styles.

Console::printHeader('Header Message'); // Prints the text in a yellow box
Console::printDebug('Debug Message'); // Prints the text in a gray color
Console::printError('Error Message'); // Prints the text in a red color
Console::printStatus('Status Message'); // Prints the text in a blue color
Console::printSuccess('Success Message'); // Prints the text in a green color

16 Color Palette

Console has support for 16 color palette.

$color = new Color16();
$color
    ->setBackgroundColor(Color::YELLOW)
    ->setForegroundColor(Color::BLACK)
    ->setFlag(Color::BOLD)
;
Console::printLine('Print Line In Color', $color);

256 Color Palette

Console has support for 256 color palette. These colors range with RGB from 0 to 5 for 216 colors. There are 24 levels of grayscale.

$color = new Color256();
$color
    ->setBackgroundColor(5,5,0)
    ->setForegroundColorGrayscale(0)
    ->setFlag(Color::BOLD)
;
Console::printLine('Print Line In Color', $color);

Progress Bars

Console has support for progress bars.

$pBar = Console::progressBar();
$pBar->setBarSize(30)->setTotal(100)->startTimer();
for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
    $pBar->increment();
}
$pBar->finish();

Tables

Console has support for tables.

Console::table()
   ->addColumn('ID')
   ->addColumn('Title')
   ->addColumn('ISBN')
   ->addRow([1, 'Lorem Ipsum and the Valley of Goblins', '987-12345678-1'])
   ->addRow([2, 'Lorem Ipsum and the Chair of Sadness', '987-12345678-2'])
   ->addRow([3, 'Lorem Ipsum and the Sands of Itchiness', '987-12345678-3'])
   ->addRow([4, 'Lorem Ipsum and the Lingua Franca', '987-12345678-4'])
   ->printTable()
;