php and console

[Dade]

hello all,
i'm doing a program that run in console (ms-dos prompt), but i have 2 smalls
problems:

1) how can i clear the screen? i tryed with system("cls") but doesn't work
2) how can i colorize the output of echo ?

thanx all
Dade

[Christian Fersch]

Dade wrote:

> 1) how can i clear the screen? i tryed with system("cls") but doesn't work

There is no such command. But you can just echo enough empty lines to
clear the screen.

greetings Christian

[Dade]

"Christian Fersch" <Chronial@web.de> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Dade wrote:

> > 1) how can i clear the screen? i tryed with system("cls") but doesn't

work

>
> There is no such command. But you can just echo enough empty lines to
> clear the screen.
>
> greetings Christian

[Dade]

"Christian Fersch" <Chronial@web.de> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Dade wrote:

> > 1) how can i clear the screen? i tryed with system("cls") but doesn't

work

>
> There is no such command. But you can just echo enough empty lines to
> clear the screen.
>
> greetings Christian

yes, i also thought to this solution, the problem is move the cursor in the
top - left position ....

thanx
Dade

[Colin McKinnon]

Dade spilled the following:

>
> "Christian Fersch" <Chronial@web.de> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:cb41ar$tc5$05$1@news.t-online.com...

>> Dade wrote:

>> > 1) how can i clear the screen? i tryed with system("cls") but doesn't

> work

>>
>> There is no such command. But you can just echo enough empty lines to
>> clear the screen.
>>
>> greetings Christian

>
> yes, i also thought to this solution, the problem is move the cursor in
> the top - left position ....

A better solution would be to use the ANSI emulation available in MS-DOS
through Windows XP.

See [url]http://is-it-true.org/nt/utips/utips181.shtml[/url] for instructions on how to
enable it.

You'll also need to know what codes to send to do particular things - the
right way of doing it would be to use the ncusrses library but installing
it on Microsoft is likely to be a pain. At
[url]http://www.evergreen.edu/biophysics/technotes/program/ansi_esc.htm[/url] there is
a well explain list of what sequences perform what operations.

(PHP supports binary strings)

HTH

C.

[rvntone]

hello all,
i'm doing a program that run in console (ms-dos prompt), but i have 2 smalls
problems:

1) how can i clear the screen? i tryed with system("cls") but doesn't work
2) how can i colorize the output of echo ?

thanx all
Dade

1) First you need to know how you clear screen (Linux: clear, windows: cls) and then you could execute <?php passthru('clear');?> for example

2) You could use Ansi but I don't know if it works in windows console