🐥 Clickable links in Laravel console output

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If you want to output a text in the console using Laravel and make it a clickable hyperlink, you can easily do it like this:

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class SampleCommand extends Command
{
    protected $signature = 'sample';

    protected $description = 'Prints a text with a hyperlink to the console';

    public function handle(): int
    {
        $this->info('<href=https://www.yellowduck.be>hello world</>');
        return self::SUCCESS;
    }
}

You can also use it to color the output by adding:

$this->info('<bg=yellow;fg=red;href=https://www.yellowduck.be>hello world</>');

The syntax is really simple:

bg: background color
fg: foreground color
href: a hyperlink

The Symfony module behind this is what makes this work.

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