Framework spotlight

Build full-screen terminal applications in pure PHP

TurboVision for PHP brings the classic windowed text-mode interface to modern PHP: a retained view tree, overlapping windows, menus, dialogs, editors, keyboard and mouse input, and deterministic headless tests.

Build an application from scratch

Turbo Workbench running in TurboVision for PHP, with overlapping windows, dashboard controls, and a status line — A real TurboVision frame, captured through the headless renderer.

Framework highlights

A real application framework

Compose retained views, focusable controls, overlapping windows, nested menus, status lines, modal dialogs, editors, file pickers, help, and persistence.

Explore the view system

Terminal behavior included

Capability detection, Unicode drawing, keyboard and mouse protocols, resize handling, ANSI diff rendering, and safe terminal restoration stay behind the driver.

Read the driver reference

Test without a terminal

Boot applications in memory, queue events, inspect the screen buffer, and create deterministic HTML or PNG captures without taking over a TTY.

Try headless testing

Classic ideas, modern PHP

Keep the durable ideas from Turbo Vision while using typed PHP, Composer, explicit dependencies, injectable drivers, and modern tests.

Read the design story