output of tail via php is losing colours and displaying [31:

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Hi am trying to display the output of a log via apache



<?php echo shell_exec('tail -10 /path/log/file.log'); ?>now in bash this displays colours but via web I get the text vi shows which is kind of like colour codes..
eg


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because a web page needs html tags or css to do the coloring

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It looks like I need some form of ansi output for php.

Does anyone know of this?