# thephpleague/climate

PHP's best friend for the terminal.

Repository: https://github.com/thephpleague/climate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/climate
Homepage: http://climate.thephpleague.com
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-07-25T09:31:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4399, "days_push": 39, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1895, forks 124 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:50.928844+00:00)

## What it is
CLImate is a PHP library for building command-line applications with easy colored output, formatting, tables, progress bars, and input handling. It is part of The League of Extraordinary Packages and installs via Composer.

## Use cases
- output colored text from a PHP CLI script
- render tables and progress bars in the terminal
- read user input in PHP command-line tools
- format terminal output with padding and borders
- build a PHP command-line tool with styled output

## When to choose
- you are writing a PHP CLI tool and want simple, expressive terminal output
- you need tables, progress bars, or input prompts in PHP without heavy dependencies

## When to avoid
- you are building CLIs in another language
- you need a full CLI framework with command routing and argument parsing out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: terminal-ui, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: php, cli, cross-platform
- tags: terminal-output, ansi-colors, progress-bar, cli-input, php-library, command-line

## Member repositories
- thephpleague/climate (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:50.928844+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:12:52.349456+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thephpleague/climate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:50.928844+00:00, sha 6c70aee92145)
  - homepage: http://climate.thephpleague.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:51:48.716526+00:00, sha d29a48916358)
  - site_page: https://climate.thephpleague.com/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T10:51:48.725567+00:00, sha 84c28cfe3b4d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.