This is an improvement of the previous answer which handles terminal resizes and uses 2 lines instead of 1. First line is info like time/percent second line is the progress bar.

<? /* Copyright (c) 2010, dealnews.com, Inc. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * Neither the name of dealnews.com, Inc. nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. */ /** * show a status bar in the console * * <code> * for($x=1;$x<=100;$x++){ * * show_status($x, 100); * * usleep(100000); * * } * </code> * * @param int $done how many items are completed * @param int $total how many items are to be done total * @param int $size optional size of the status bar * @return void * */ function show_status($done, $total, $size=30, $lineWidth=-1) { if($lineWidth <= 0){ $lineWidth = $_ENV['COLUMNS']; } static $start_time; // to take account for [ and ] $size -= 3; // if we go over our bound, just ignore it if($done > $total) return; if(empty($start_time)) $start_time=time(); $now = time(); $perc=(double)($done/$total); $bar=floor($perc*$size); // jump to the begining echo "\r"; // jump a line up echo "\x1b[A"; $status_bar="["; $status_bar.=str_repeat("=", $bar); if($bar<$size){ $status_bar.=">"; $status_bar.=str_repeat(" ", $size-$bar); } else { $status_bar.="="; } $disp=number_format($perc*100, 0); $status_bar.="]"; $details = "$disp% $done/$total"; $rate = ($now-$start_time)/$done; $left = $total - $done; $eta = round($rate * $left, 2); $elapsed = $now - $start_time; $details .= " " . formatTime($eta)." ". formatTime($elapsed); $lineWidth--; if(strlen($details) >= $lineWidth){ $details = substr($details, 0, $lineWidth-1); } echo "$details

$status_bar"; flush(); // when done, send a newline if($done == $total) { echo "

"; } }

I don't know why the above code has a license I'm just copying it to be safe. The bellow code is under no license. Free to use for any purpose.