Where are my PHPUnit colors :D

You can do it like this

./vendor/bin/phpunit --colors 

If you want more help then we need to see your phpunit.xml file

vi ~/.bash_profile

export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=gxBxhxDxfxhxhxhxhxcxcx

Hey guys, having a similar issue.

I use iTerm 2 with Oh My Zsh (like Jeffrey advises).

I notice however, that on my Homestead box, I don't get any colors in the terminal other than the colors that are display from Artisan commands.

My Oh My Zsh theme (cloud) isn't working on the SSH (I installed it from the Homestead box, but I am having trouble figuring out how to tell homestead to use it).

When I run phpunit I don't get any colors even though the XML file is set to colors. The XML file is the default file that ships with Laravel 5

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phpunit backupGlobals="false"
         backupStaticAttributes="false"
         bootstrap="bootstrap/autoload.php"
         colors="true"
         convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
         convertNoticesToExceptions="true"
         convertWarningsToExceptions="true"
         processIsolation="false"
         stopOnFailure="false"
         syntaxCheck="false">
    <testsuites>
        <testsuite name="Application Test Suite">
            <directory>./tests/</directory>
        </testsuite>
    </testsuites>
    <php>
        <env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
        <env name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
        <env name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
        <env name="QUEUE_DRIVER" value="sync"/>
    </php>
</phpunit>

And my terminal output looks like this (with no colors..the colors you see below are automatically added by the syntax highlighter)

PHPUnit 4.6.6 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Configuration read from /home/vagrant/ExpressRentals/phpunit.xml

.

Time: 6.46 seconds, Memory: 15.75Mb

OK (1 test, 1 assertion)

Any thoughts? Or are colors something that won't work in terminal when SSH'd in?

I've had this problem too. I noticed my most recent Laravel 5 install was showing colours, but the Lumen install I did yesterday wasn't.

I noticed that Lumen had PHPUnit version 4.6.6 but the Laravel 5 install was showing as PHPUnit 4.5.0.

Changing your composer.json to require "phpunit/phpunit": "4.5.0" should solve the problem.

So that's weird. But that solved my PHP Unit color issues. I'm still having issues with my Oh My Zsh colors, but that's a different SSH issue :)

Try this:

Open your terminal and type:

// on the root of your project
vendor/bin/phpunit

This issue is caused when you are using different version of phpunit on your system, for example, your package is 4.7 and your system is 4.2 then your tests output will not get colored because of that, this is NOT a phpunit related issue.

To FIX this problem update your system version of phpunit by running:

phpunit self-update

@adrianorosa running "phpunit self-update" returns no self-update.php file

phpunit --self-update

Try using "--colors=always" flag while running your test.

For e.g. You can run it like this from your terminal or GitBash :

vendor/bin/phpunit --colors=always tests

you can set the phpunit.xml:

<phpunit colors="true"