What is Console adapters in Zend framework?

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Zend Framework 2 provides console abstraction layer, which works around various bugs and limitations in operating systems. It handles displaying of colored text, retrieving console window size, charset and provides basic line drawing capabilities.

Retrieving console adapter : If you are using MVC controllers you can obtain Console adapter instance using Service Manager.

namespace Application;

use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController;
use Zend\Console\Adapter\AdapterInterface as Console;
use Zend\Console\Exception\RuntimeException;

class ConsoleController extends AbstractActionController
{
    public function testAction()
    {
        $console = $this->getServiceLocator()->get('console');
        if (!$console instanceof Console) {
            throw new RuntimeException('Cannot obtain console adapter. Are we running in a console?');
        }
    }
}

If you are using Zend\Console without MVC, we can get adapter using the following code :

use Zend\Console\Console;
use Zend\Console\Exception\RuntimeException as ConsoleException;

try {
    $console = Console::getInstance();
} catch (ConsoleException $e) {
    // Could not get console adapter - most likely we are not running inside a console window.
}