Just something I threw together this morning while parsing a CSV

terminal_debug.php

<?php

/**
 * Spits debug output to the terminal
 *
 * @return void
 * @author Jake A. Smith
 * @param string $msg the string to display
 * @param int $line_breaks number of line breaks
 * @param $bool $before Determines whether the line breaks will show before or after the message
 **/
function msg($msg, $line_breaks = 1, $before = false)
{
  $space = '';
	while($line_breaks != 0) {
		$space .= PHP_EOL;
		$line_breaks--;
	}

	echo $before
		? $space . $msg . PHP_EOL
		: $msg . $space;
}