Console color support about yii2 HOT 16 CLOSED

Instead of ConsoleColor why is not called Console and make other utility functions to work with terminals? For example:

• prompt
• select
• confirm
• download
• progress <-- to display download information for example
• etc

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These suggestions sound good to me.

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afaik there is a very good solution for console in the Antonio's new boilerplates, even with daemon written on php, can we take console functionality from there? would be very useful.

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This was ment as you suggested, @tonydspaniard . The name color is very bad choice here :)

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Instead of color we should talk about using ANSI control codes.
The main problem to solve here is to make it work in every terminal and have a fallback.
We may have a switch to turn ANSI control codes on and off. It may be on by default on linux machines and off on windows, but would be even better if we could detect whether we are running in a terminal or not.

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@cebe I agree... there is not really a good solution for its support on Windows (not as far as I know). Nevertheless, if we forced to do so, here is a good reference and easiest way to do it:

• http://www.symfony-zone.com/wordpress/2009/10/15/colorize-your-windows-console-output/

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@tonydspaniard that will work with windows XP and less + most of console wrappers such as ConEmu or ANSICON. I think it's enough if we'll like to these tools from the guide or API docs.

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Proposed: #144

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@tonydspaniard thanks for you proposal so far, I have refactored it a bit.
I think it is cool to have wrappers in console/Controller that adds the magic of whether ansi support is enabled or not and also if the command runs interactive or not. The raw stuff will be in Console helper.
I'd like to hear your feedback on this.

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I think we should also adopt something like strlen and strpad from:
https://github.com/tonydspaniard/php-cli-tools/blob/master/lib/cli/Colors.php

Also for inspiration: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console/introduction.html

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Implemented Console::getScreenSize() for linux. Would be cool if someone else could do it for windows, as I don't have a windows system here to test currently.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/7575044/1106908

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Implemented. Also fixed ANSI color support detection.

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What is the remaining work for this issue? I'm moving this out of alpha.

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autocomplete i think, @cebe was suggesting in separate issue this feature, i think it is related.

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@qiangxue there's ansiToHtml in ConsoleBase that looks far from being completed.

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will try to finalise it this week.

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