Quick PHP table output for console

php_cli_table.php

<?php

/**
 * A quick way, with a bit of overhead, to get nice tabular output
 * from a PHP CLI app.
 *
 * Sometimes I find myself just requiring very quick and dirty
 * tabular output and find this to be the path of least resistance.
 *
 * This method utilises Symfony's Console's Table and BufferedOutput
 * classes to generate the table and capture the built table to later
 * store or output.
 *
 * $ composer require symfony/console
 *
 * https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console/helpers/table.html
 */

declare(strict_types=1);

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\Table;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\BufferedOutput;

$output = new BufferedOutput();
$table = new Table($output);

$table->setHeaders(['First Name', 'Last Name'])
    ->setRows([
        ['John', 'Smith'],
        ['Jane', 'Doe']
    ])
    ->setStyle('default')
    ->render();

echo $output->fetch();