README

Charm\Terminal is a class for writing to streams while parsing the markup language.

Generate nice and helpful output for the command line with minimal extra work, by adding a very simple markup language to your output. This greatly simplifies working with colors in the terminal:

1. The tags work like HTML, except their opening tag is <!TAG-NAME> and their closing tag is <!>.
2. Multiple tags can be combined into one with <!yellow underline>example<!>.
3. Tags can be nested.
4. When the client is not using a TTY, no CSI codes will be sent - which means that your output will have colors only when used interactively.
5. Tags can be escaped with backslash, like \<!this>

Example

$term = new Charm\Terminal(STDERR);

// Clear the screen
$term->write('<!clear>');

// Write "Hello World"
$term->write('<!bwhite>Hello<!> <!underline>World<!>\n');

Description

(new Charm\Terminal($stream))->write($output);

Writes the contents of output to the file stream pointed to by stream.

Parameters

stream

A file system pointer resource that is typically the PHP constants STDERR or STDOUT.

output

The text with markup that you wish to print.

Return values

Returns nothing

Tag reference

|---------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------| | Tag | Description | |---------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------| | bold | Makes text bold | | italic | Makes text italic | | underline | Makes test | | strikeThrough | Makes text strike through | | blink | Makes text blink slowly | | fastblink | Makes text blink quickly | | clear | Clear the entire terminal window | | home | Move cursor to line 1, column 1 | | clear-line | Clears the entire line at the cursor | | clear-left | Clears the line to the left of the cursor | | clear-right | Clears the line to the right of the cursor | | pos(L, C) | Move cursor to line L, column C | | negative | Invert foreground and background color | |---------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

Color reference

|------------------|----------------|---------------------------------------------| | Standard color | Bright color | Description | |------------------|----------------|---------------------------------------------| | black | grey | Black and grey | | silver | white | White and bright white | | maroon | red | Red and bright red | | green | lime | Green and bright green | | olive | yellow | Yellow and bright yellow | | navy | blue | Blue and bright blue | | puple | fuchsia | Purple and bright purple | | teal | aqua | Teal and bright teal | | silver | white | White and bright white | |------------------|----------------|---------------------------------------------|

Note! A full list of supported colors can be found in src/Info/Color.php.

Background colors can be set by suffixing the color with BG or Background:

$term->write("<!redBG white> This is white on red <!>");

Examples

Example #1 object oriented usage

$terminal = new Charm\Terminal(STDOUT);
$terminal->write("<!red>This text is <!white underline>WHITE WITH UNDERLINE<!> wrapped in red<!>");

Example #2 function usage

Charm\term_write(STDOUT, "<!red>This will be <!underline green>green underlined<!!>");

Notes

The tag <!> will close the previous tag. If you want to close 3 tags at once use <!!!>.