Clear PHP CLI output

Question

I\'m trying to get a \"live\" progress indicator working on my php CLI app. Rather than outputting as

1Done
2Done
3Done

I would rather it c

Answer 1

Console functions are platform dependent and as such PHP has no built-in functions to deal with this. system and other similar functions won't work in this case because PHP captures the output of these programs and prints/returns them. What PHP prints goes to standard output and not directly to the console, so "printing" the output of cls won't work.