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How to enable color for PHP CLI?

How do I enable the colors for output of CLI? The below one is, running on Ubuntu.

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If you see the screenshot, obviously the colors is enabled for terminal. And, if I call echo, it doesn't colorize the result, but if I use echo -e, it colorizes.
I checked manual page of echo, and -e means enable interpretation of backslash escapes
How can I enable this option for PHP CLI?

Solution

  • 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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