How to make alignment on console in php

Question

I am trying to run a script through command prompt in PHP and trying to show the result in tabular form. But due to different character length of words I am not able to show

Answer 1

You can use PEAR::Console_Table:

Console_Table helps you to display tabular data on a terminal/shell/console.

Example:

require_once 'Console/Table.php';

$tbl = new Console_Table();

$tbl->setHeaders(array('Language', 'Year'));

$tbl->addRow(array('PHP', 1994));
$tbl->addRow(array('C',   1970));
$tbl->addRow(array('C++', 1983));

echo $tbl->getTable();

Output:

+----------+------+
| Language | Year |
+----------+------+
| PHP      | 1994 |
| C        | 1970 |
| C++      | 1983 |
+----------+------+