A simple PHP lib that can color nick names to make them distinguishable in a chat room. Each color is unique to the name so each name keeps its color regardless of the time, system or whatever circumstances. This is done using a sha1 hash on the name and taking the first 7 characters in it hex representation to calculate the color.

Requirements

PHP 5.4 or higher.

Installation

Using Composer:

composer require cebe/color-nick

Usage

<?php

use cebe\colornick\Color;

require(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');

$color = Color::calculateColor($name);

See example.php for a working example. Here is a screenshot of the output:

License

MIT, see LICENSE file for more details.