PHP: color a string

Question

I've just finished an ASCII table design like:

+------+------+
|id    |name  |
+------+------+
|1     |x     |
+------+------+

now I'm trying to color those text. I found some way with PHP image/HTML way. Is there any way to color those text without PHP image create/HTML.

Objective: Color each column's text with same color. eg. all values of id col with color 'red', name col with green and so on.

NOTE: It's not a console output nor a HTML page. Just draw with PHP, inspired from here

Please help me.

Please be more accurate in your question about what you are trying to accomplish. If this is a table you are going to show on a website, you need to use html/css to style the elements. — Ole Haugset, Oct 02 '14 at 08:23
not console output nor HTML page, just inspired by https://gist.github.com/doubleking/6117215. so looking if possible to color those texts — The System Restart, Oct 02 '14 at 08:26
It doesn't answer the question : "where do you want to print it ?" — BMN, Oct 02 '14 at 08:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

This really depends where you are going to output the table.

If you are using a command shell (dos-window, bash etc.) then you can use some special escape codes or api functions to color your output. If you are using a browser which gets mime type text/text you can't color anything. If you are using a browser which gets mime type text/html you can use CSS with fixed char sizes (font courier)

In fact you need to tell us, where do you wan't to output your table.

PHP: color a string

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