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Zend_Text_Figlet is a Zend component which enables developers to create a FIGlet text. A Figlet is nothing but a technique of creating large letters using ordinary text. I don’t know how to make a use of this in my daily matters, but its a nice recreation. A short history on Figlet can be found here. An example and the code to generate it is shown below.

  ____     __   _     ____
 |  _ \\  | || | ||  |  _ \\
 | |_| || | '--' ||  | |_| ||
 | .__//  | .--. ||  | .__//
 |_|--`   |_|| |_||  |_|--`
 `-`      `-`  `-`   `-`

<?php
 
require_once("zend/text/figlet.php");
$figlet = new Zend_Text_Figlet();
echo $figlet->render('PHP');
 
?>

If you are displaying the output on a web page make sure to use the ‘pre’ tags around the Figlet. The Figlet looks good in a pure text format.
You can also define various options for the Figlet by passing the function an array of options, like say changing the font.

<?php
 
require_once("zend/text/figlet.php");
/* use a different font */
$options = array('font' => 'graffiti.flf');               
 
$figlet = new Zend_Text_Figlet($options);
echo $figlet->render('PHP');
 
?>

__________   ___ ___  __________
\______   \ /   |   \ \______   \
 |     ___//    ~    \ |     ___/
 |    |    \    Y    / |    |
 |____|     \___|_  /  |____|
                  \/

You can download more fonts from here.
The default width of the Figlet output is set to 80 characters, which you can change with the ‘outputWidth’ option.

.
.
$options = array('outputWidth' => 120);

For more options you can take a look at the documentation.