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CLI Commander: Format console output and parse command arguments

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cli-commander 1.24MIT/X Consortium ...4.3PHP 5, Unix, Console
Description 

Author

Don Bauer

This class can format console output and parse command line arguments.

It can send commands to the console to perform actions to format the program output like defining the text foreground and background color, set the text style, set the terminal title, reset the terminal state, set the line and column position of the next text to be outputted, etc..

The class can also detect if the terminal is compatible with Xterm, is running a bash shell, and read characters and lines from the input.

The command line arguments can also be parsed into arrays.

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ABOUT
	CLICommander is a class that enables both ANSI and xterm color support
	for PHP command line applications.  Additionally, it offers features
	such as formatting template support, advanced command line options handling,
	and a whole lot more.
	
	CLICommander allows you to make rich command line user interfaces without
	having to include extentions such as ncurses.
	
FEATURES
	* Full ANSI 16-Color and Style support
	* Xterm 256-Color support
	* ANSI Terminal Bell Support
	* ANSI Terminal Title Support
	* Masked Input Support
	* Simple User Prompts
	* Advanced Argument Handling
	* Template Driven Formatting
	* HTML to xterm Color Conversion

VERSION HISTORY
	1.0 - 2012-01-11
		Initial Creation

HOW TO USE
	Coming soon...

Screenshots (2)  
  • XTerm_Example.png
  • ANSI_Example.png
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  HTML file _examples---example.arguments.php.html Doc. Documentation
  HTML file _examples---example.input.php.html Doc. Documentation
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  HTML file fsource_CLICommand...lateOutput.php.html Doc. Documentation
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