At 3:59 PM -0700 10/8/07, Daevid Vincent wrote:
I write many CLI scripts in PHP to clean up DB records, etc via crontab
scripts. Often though, I implement command line switches to 'debug' or see
various data as a precaution before actually purging.
Perl has some neat tools built in to format tabular data:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/perl/perl08.html
Does PHP have any tools like this? I'd prefer not to pull in some PEAR
package or other bloat, but I'll take what I can get if it actually works
well. I was hoping there are some tips/tricks to show simple tabular data:
i.e.:
# foo.php --showgroups
==================================
Groups
==================================
Name: Expires: Date:
-------- ------------ -----------
groupA 3 hours 2007-10-08
groupBeta 10 hours 2007-11-10
groupC 1 week 2007-12-31
notice basic things like alignment,
length of data (as in 'tabs' won't work), etc.
It's tabular -- why not use tables?
Cheers,
tedd
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