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A little cutesy command line animation
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blinky.php
<?php
/**
* Blinky is a little ASCII animation inspired by
* Shane Harter's "Progress Display for PHP CLI scripts"
* see: https://gist.github.com/4211173
* this one is written by Azi Crawford forked by Tim Correia
**/
define('BLINKS', array( 'O.O', 'O.o', 'O.-', 'O.o', 'O.O', 'o.O', '-.O', 'o.O', 'O.O', 'o.o', '-.-', 'o.o') );
function draw_blink ($counter){
$frame = $counter % 12;
$blink = BLINKS[$frame];
echo str_repeat("\010", 50);
echo str_pad($blink, 50, ' ', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}
echo str_repeat("\n", 10);
for ($i=0; $i<100; $i++) {
draw_blink($i);
usleep(125000);
}
echo str_repeat("\010", 50);
echo str_repeat(' ', 50) . PHP_EOL;
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WizardOfArc commented Dec 5, 2012

Warning: Constants may only evaluate to scalar values in **********/blinky.php on line 9

perhaps we can just have $blink_array instead of defining a constant?

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