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gobwas/shellstyle
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ShellStyle is a simple php class that allows you to get wrapped Unix/Linux colored output with ANSI escape codes

1.0.0-alpha.1(13y ago)0162GPL3PHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Jan 8Pushed 13y ago1 watchersCompare

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README
======

[](#readme)

ShellStyle
----------

[](#shellstyle)

ShellStyle is a simple php class that allows you to get wrapped Unix/Linux colored output with ANSI escape codes:

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Usage of ShellStyle is quite simple:

```
use Gobwas\ShellStyle\ShellStyle;

// First way to define style
$green = new ShellStyle();
$green
    ->addStyle(ShellStyle::FOREGROUND_GREEN)
    ->addStyle(ShellStyle::STYLE_BOLD);

// Another way to define style
$yellow = new ShellStyle(array(ShellStyle::FOREGROUND_YELLOW));

echo $green->parse("Hello");
echo $yellow->parse("World!");

```

###  Health Score

22

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LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4878d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![gobwas](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/675117?v=4)](https://github.com/gobwas "gobwas (3 commits)")

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