PHP Command Line Progress Bar

KarmaDude Jun 20, 2009 2 Comments
Web Design

A simple progress bar function for php command line (CLI) scripts:

function progressBar($current, $total, $label="Progress: ", $interval=5) {
    if ($current == 0) {
         echo $label;

         // start the bar
         echo "| 0%";
     } else {
         $pos = ($current / $total * 100);
          if( fmod($pos, $interval) == 0 ) {
              if( $pos >= 10 ) echo "\010";
              if( $pos == 100 ) echo "\010";

               echo "\010\010\010";
               echo "| $pos%";
           }
       }

       // end progress with a new line
       if ($current == $total) echo "\n";
}

Reference code: PHP CLI Progress Indicator

2 Comments

Add your own
  • TechieDesi Community Management
    Aug 25, 2009 | 4:08 am

    Hi KarmaDude,

    We would like to invite you to a community of techies, http://www.techiedesi.com.
    You are one among the few Techie bloggers we have hand picked to send a special invitation (i.e., this is not an automated mail). We could not get hold of your email so sending this as a comment on your blog.

    At TechieDesi Community, we are trying to build the largest community of techies, with the shortest turn around time to get the questions answered. It’s a community of bloggers, geeks, solution providers and all different people who have one thing in common, the interest towards technology.

    If you would like to know more about the community, who built it and what are our visions, please follow the links below:
    http://www.techiedesi.com/about

    As of today, we have more than 700 techies in the community with a few active bloggers and the number is increasing as we spread the word.

    We look forward to see you in the community. Please do spread the word to your fellow techies.

    Thanks,
    TechieDesi Community Management

  • Benjamin Oakes
    May 28, 2010 | 7:36 am

    This is really useful (and easy to adapt to other languages). Thanks!

Leave a Comment

Trackback this post  |  Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed

Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>