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danieljharvey/php-cli-colours
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A small library for using colours in CLI scripts

1.2.0(9y ago)01.0k↓100%MITPHP

Since Apr 10Pushed 9y agoCompare

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php-cli-colours
===============

[](#php-cli-colours)

I like my CLI scripts to be colourful and with this library I hope to achieve said colours

Example usage

```
include 'BashColours.php';
$bashColours=new \DanielJHarvey\CLIColours\BashColours();

echo "I am writing a nice CLI script and ".$bashColours->formatString("BANG!", 'red')." I need exciting things to happen\n";

echo $bashColours->formatString("But now everything is fine and stuff",'default','green');

```

Or now you can change forecolor with a big heap of shortcut functions:

```
include 'BashColours.php';
$colour=new \DanielJHarvey\CLIColours\BashColours();

echo $colour->red("red")." and ".$colour->yellow("yellow")." and ".$colour->lightMagenta("pink")." and ".$colour->green("green")."...\n";

```

The full set of foreground and background colors from this list are implemented:

[http://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip\_colors\_and\_formatting](http://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting)

Will consider adding bold/italic/blink etc later.

###  Health Score

30

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LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~26 days

Total

2

Last Release

3289d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/93fbc523207f38cbe06a394df6770ff393426bd24237e82c477da30e1b673af1?d=identicon)[danieljharvey](/maintainers/danieljharvey)

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Top Contributors

[![danieljharvey](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4729125?v=4)](https://github.com/danieljharvey "danieljharvey (13 commits)")

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Tags

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