Using cowsay element in Thermage

Originialy cowsay was a Perl program that generates ASCII art pictures of a cow with a message. It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals, such as Tux the Penguin, the Linux mascot. Originialy it was written in Perl. There is also a related program called cowthink, with cows with thought bubbles rather than speech bubbles. Cow files for cowsay exist which are able to produce different variants of "cows", with different kinds of "eyes", and so forth. It is sometimes used on IRC, desktop screenshots, and in software documentation. It is more or less a joke within hacker culture, but has been around long enough that its use is rather widespread.

Thermage 0.19.0 brings cowsay element for the terminal to render different cowsay and cowthink messages.

Available cowsay templates in Thermage 0.19.0:

C3PO R2-D2 USA ackbar aperture-blank aperture armadillo atat atom awesome-face banana bearface beavis.zen bees bill-the-cat biohazard bishop black-mesa bong box broken-heart bud-frogs bunny cake-with-candles cake cat cat2 catfence charizardvice charlie cheese chessmen chito claw-arm clippy companion-cube cower cowfee cthulhu-mini cube daemon dalek-shooting dalek default docker-whale doge dolphin dragon-and-cow dragon ebi_furai elephant-in-snake elephant elephant2 explosion eyes fat-banana fat-cow fence fire flaming-sheep fox ghost ghostbusters glados goat goat2 golden-eagle hand happy-whale hedgehog hellokitty hippie hiya hiyoko homer hypno ibm iwashi jellyfish karl_marx kilroy king kiss kitten kitty knight koala kosh lamb lamb2 lightbulb lobster lollerskates luke-koala mailchimp maze-runner mech-and-cow meow milk minotaur mona-lisa moofasa mooghidjirah moojira moose mule mutilated nyan octopus okazu owl pawn periodic-table personality-sphere pinball-machine psychiatrichelp psychiatrichelp2 pterodactyl queen radio ren renge robot robotfindskitten roflcopter rook sachiko satanic seahorse-big seahorse sheep shikato shrug skeleton small smiling-octopus snoopy snoopyhouse snoopysleep spidercow squid squirrel stegosaurus stimpy sudowoodo supermilker surgery tableflip taxi telebears template threader threecubes toaster tortoise turkey turtle tux-big tux tweety-bird vader-koala vader weeping-angel whale wizard wood world www yasuna_01 yasuna_02 yasuna_03 yasuna_03a yasuna_04 yasuna_05 yasuna_06 yasuna_07 yasuna_08 yasuna_09 yasuna_10 yasuna_11 yasuna_12 yasuna_13 yasuna_14 yasuna_16 yasuna_17 yasuna_18 yasuna_19 yasuna_20 ymd_udon zen-noh-milk

All cowsay templates are located in the Thermage cows directory.

Let's create a simple CLI APP with a cowsay element.

Create cliapp directory for your demo project and app.php file.

$ mkdir cliapp
$ cd cliapp
$ touch app.php

Install Thermage with Composer.

$ composer require thermage/thermage

Open app.php with nano editor or any other you like.

<?php 

use function Thermage\render;
use function Thermage\cowsay;

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

render(
    cowsay('Hello World')
      ->template('hellokitty')
      ->w20()
      ->eyes('OO')
);

Save the app.php file and execute it in the console.

$ php app.php

The example above will render a cowsay element using template hellokitty, eyes OO and message box width 20(spaces).

/--------------------\
| Hello World        |
\--------------------/
  \
   \
      /\_)o<
     |      \
     | O . O |
      \_____/

You may set any other settings for cowsay element. Let's set individual left and right eyes and change the message box to think box.

<?php 

use function Thermage\render;
use function Thermage\cowsay;

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

render(
    cowsay('Hello World')
      ->template('hellokitty')
      ->w20()
      ->think()
      ->eyeLeft('o')
      ->eyeRight('O')
);

Save the app.php file and execute it in the console.

$ php app.php

The example above will render a cowsay element using template hellokitty, eyes oO, message box width 20(spaces), and with a think box.

(~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~)
( Hello World        )
(~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~)
  \
   \
      /\_)o<
     |      \
     | o . O |
      \_____/