PEAR Console Classes: Here’s a tutorial on a fascinating little PEAR module that facilitates using PHP from the command line. It has methods for rendering tables, displaying progress bars, and doing color formatting on ANSI compliant terminals, this giving you some flexibility when developing PHP command line apps. Fascinating what these guys come up with.
As long as we're on the subject of PHP tomfoolery, I found something else of interest. I was going to reply to Deane's last PHP post with a snide comment like "What's next, 3D graphics with PHP?". Then I found this: php_opengl is the bindings from opengl, glu, and glut to…