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Justin Buchanan
Justin Buchanan

Reputation: 31

Clearing the Console from a Laravel Command

I'm using the Lumen framework for a side project and have created an artisan command that writes a small table to the terminal. What I'm having trouble doing, is clearing the terminal and redrawing the table. 

public function fire()
{
    $scraper = new scraper();
    $scores = $scraper->scrape();
    $i = 1;
    while($i = 1) {
        $table = new Table($this->getOutput());

        $table->setHeaders(array('', 'Score', 'Status'));
        foreach($scores as $game) {
            $table->addRow([$game->team1['name'], $game->team1['score'], new TableCell($game->gameStatus, array('rowspan' => 2))]);
            $table->addRow([$game->team2['name'], $game->team2['score']]);
            $table->addRow([new TableSeparator(), new TableSeparator(), new TableSeparator()]);
        }
        $table->render();
        sleep(5);
        // Somehow clear the terminal 
    }
}

Does anyone have any ideas?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4341

Answers (1)

maiorano84
maiorano84

Reputation: 11971

A dirty fix would be something like this:

if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN') {
    system('cls');
} else {
    system('clear');
}

Upvotes: 7

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