thanks for this piece of code, it’s really nice to know how to do this in php.

I’ve modified it a bit for using it inside of a foreach loop, maybe this modification may be useful to somebody who needs spinning while walking an array or similar stuff.

$phases = array(“|”, “/”, “-”, “\\”);
$phase = 0;

echo “Spinning… |”;

foreach (EXPRESSION) { // could be while or for or whatever loop

// Do what you have to do, then:

if($phase == 4) $phase = 0;
printf(‘%s%s’, chr(8), $phases[$phase]);
$phase++;
}