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brianhenryie/color-logger
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A PSR logger that prints to the console in colour. For tests.

3.0.0(5mo ago)011.4k↓50%5MITPHP

Since Jun 3Pushed 5mo ago1 watchersCompare

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ColorLogger
===========

[](#colorlogger)

A [PSR-3 logger](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-3/) to use during PHPUnit tests.

Prints the log level in colour, the message as normal, no time, and no context.

[![Wonderful, wonderful colours](./assets/screenshot-1.png "Printed logs with colour")](./assets/screenshot-1.png)

```
composer require --dev brianhenryie/color-logger

```

Then, presuming your classes [`use LoggerAwareTrait`](https://github.com/php-fig/log/blob/master/Psr/Log/LoggerAwareTrait.php):

```
$myclass = new MyClass();
$colorLogger = new \BrianHenryIE\ColorLogger\ColorLogger();
$myclass->setLogger($colorLogger);
```

###  Health Score

45

—

FairBetter than 93% of packages

Maintenance70

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~328 days

Recently: every ~352 days

Total

6

Last Release

170d ago

Major Versions

1.3.0 → 2.0.02025-11-30

2.0.0 → 3.0.02025-11-30

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3541a510f89dedd04f0e7103201e411f6f22685a13e941b3384d97d4c7d32b09?d=identicon)[BrianHenryIE](/maintainers/BrianHenryIE)

---

Top Contributors

[![BrianHenryIE](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4720401?v=4)](https://github.com/BrianHenryIE "BrianHenryIE (9 commits)")

---

Tags

psr-logger

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

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