One more thing, this works well from the command line, but if you want to make it work from within a PHP script that output data to the terminal then remove the "-e";.
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Darryle Steplight <dstepli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Chris , > > That's exactly what I was looking for. For anyone else who needs help > with this, here are my working examples, with a little explanation. > > echo -e "\033[34m Contact List \033[0m"; <- The "34m" part makes > Contact List a dark blue color and the "0m" at the end stops the > coloring. If I don't change it to 0, my prompt will also be dark > blue. > > If I use 31m instead of 34m, then Contact List will be red, instead of > dark blue, > > echo -e "\033[31m Contact List \033[0m". I hope that helps someone. > > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Chris Snyder <chsny...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Matthew Kaufman <mkfmn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> http://pear.php.net/Console_Color >>> >> >> If you just need a quick hack and you're using bash, this will help: >> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/colorizing.html >> >> Note that where it says \E in the examples you should replace with >> \033 to get an ESC character. >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------- > "May the Source be with you." -- ---------------------------------------------- "May the Source be with you." _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
