PHP Helpers: Command-line Colour

• Version: v1.0.2
• Date: May 05 2019
• Release notes
• GitHub repository

Provides colour constants and a simple way to colourise strings for use on the command-line.

Installation

This library is installed via Composer. To install, use composer require pointybeard/helpers-cli-colour or add "pointybeard/helpers-cli-colour": "~1.0" to your composer.json file.

And run composer to update your dependencies:

$ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ php composer.phar update

Requirements

There are no particuar requirements for this library other than PHP 5.6 or greater.

To include all the PHP Helpers packages on your project, use composer require pointybeard/helpers or add "pointybeard/helpers": "~1.0" to your composer file.

Usage

Here is an example of how to use the Colour class:

<?php

include __DIR__ . "/vendor/autoload.php";

use pointybeard\Helpers\Cli\Colour;

// Access colour constants
$foreground = Colour\Colour::FG_RED;
$background = Colour\Colour::BG_LIGHT_YELLOW;

try{

    // Add colour to a string
    print Colour\Colour::colourise(
        "This is my colouful string!!",
        $foreground,
        $background
    );

    print PHP_EOL;

    // Throws a InvalidColourException exception if the colour is invalid
    Colour\Colour::colourise(
        "Some string",
        "banana",
        $background
    );

} catch (Colour\Exceptions\InvalidColourException $ex) {
    print "ERROR: " . $ex->getMessage() . PHP_EOL;
}

Colours

The following colour constants exist:

Foreground

FG_DEFAULT, FG_BLACK, FG_RED, FG_GREEN, FG_BROWN, FG_BLUE, FG_PURPLE, FG_CYAN, FG_WHITE, FG_DARK_GRAY, FG_LIGHT_RED, FG_LIGHT_GREEN, FG_YELLOW, FG_LIGHT_BLUE, FG_LIGHT_PURPLE, FG_LIGHT_CYAN, FG_LIGHT_GRAY

Background

BG_BLACK, BG_RED, BG_GREEN, BG_YELLOW, BG_BLUE, BG_MAGENTA, BG_CYAN, BG_DEFAULT, BG_WHITE, BG_LIGHT_GRAY, BG_LIGHT_RED, BG_LIGHT_GREEN, BG_LIGHT_YELLOW, BG_LIGHT_BLUE, BG_LIGHT_MAGENTA, BG_LIGHT_CYAN, BG_DARK_GRAY

Support

If you believe you have found a bug, please report it using the GitHub issue tracker, or better yet, fork the library and submit a pull request.

Contributing

We encourage you to contribute to this project. Please check out the Contributing documentation for guidelines about how to get involved.

License

"PHP Helpers: Command-line Colour" is released under the MIT License.