Terminal colors with PHP

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<?php

// Based on info from:
// - http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?398020-terminal-colors-in-PHP
// - http://www.dzone.com/snippets/colorized-text-php-unix

$colors = array(
	'light_red' => "[1;31m",
	'light_green' => "[1;32m",
	'yellow' => "[1;33m",
	'light_blue' => "[1;34m",
	'magenta' => "[1;35m",
	'light_cyan' => "[1;36m",
	'white' => "[1;37m",
	'normal' => "[0m",
	'black' => "[0;30m",
	'red' => "[0;31m",
	'green' => "[0;32m",
	'brown' => "[0;33m",
	'blue' => "[0;34m",
	'cyan' => "[0;36m",
	'bold' => "[1m",
);

// To output the color character you need the chr(27) control character to be
// output before the color code, e.g.:

echo chr(27).$colors['light_red'].'Hello World'.PHP_EOL;
echo chr(27).$colors['light_cyan'].'Hello World'.PHP_EOL;
echo chr(27).$colors['light_green'].'Hello World'.PHP_EOL;