How to enable coloured messages for PHP CLI on console (Mac OS X, latest PHP/Apache from MacPorts)?
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad
doesn't seem to be enough, all PHP CLI produced output is colourless on the console. Would be good if the result looks like on the XAMPP PHP instance. Any ideas?
In order to get the colour on your console with PHP CLI, php5-posix module has to be installed. With MacPorts the following command does the job:
sudo port install php5-posix
Enabling colour on the console for the PHP output will hugely improve the readability in Symfony projects for instance.
Using Mac Ports, on OS X (10.11.+) if you have PHP 7, you can do:
sudo port install php7-posix
