PHPkitchen » shell http://phpkitchen.com PHP and Web Development News and Tips Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:59:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 PHP shell rocks http://phpkitchen.com/2009/11/php-shell-rocks/ http://phpkitchen.com/2009/11/php-shell-rocks/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:39:40 +0000 Demian Turner http://phpkitchen.com/?p=1348 shellI’ve written about this before, but since the interactive mode of PHP (php -a) seems to be broken on OS X, I think it’s worth singing the praises of Jan Kneschke’s php shell project once again.

It’s a piece of cake to install the tool with the PEAR installer, and since I last used it 2 great new features are on offer:

  • tab completion for all (or many) PHP functions and built-in classes and interfaces
  • handling of fatal errors

What a relief to have this working again!  I was ssh-ing onto my Fedora servers just to test out code but of course this became impractical pretty quickly.  And did I mention it runs great on PHP 5.3?

And if you’re tempted to use the similarly named phpsh project from the Facebook open src stables, I can confirm this is not an option with the latest version of PHP.

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