Changing color and output of MAMP's php error

Question

So the first priority here is trying to change the color of the out from the php error logs in my terminal. I read in this article PHP log file color about how they were using a class to do this but I'm not quite sure where to start. Maybe the php.ini file? Also I'm using the command

tail -f /Applications/MAMP PRO/MAMP PRO.app/Contents/Resources/php5.5.10.ini

to output the error logs. If this is too difficult of a task to accomplish I'll let it go. I just think it'd be nice to see some kind of syntax highlighting on the output from the file.

Thanks for any help!