Facebook’s “phpsh” - interactive shell for PHP

I love direction in which IRB for ruby works. My friend, Antono uses IRB very often when testing or debuging his RoR applications. So i feel, that i need something similar, but for PHP.

There are lot of different tryies to implement comfortable interactive shell in PHP, such as phpa or ~jk php shell. But i thinks, that Facebook developers with their phpsh found the best way of doing this & that’s why:

  • full commands history, based on readline;
  • tab completion for functions;
  • simple output highlight;
  • access to documentation for commands.

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Facebook's phpsh

Unfortunately, it’s written mostly in python, so the install process is not trivial for most PHP devs. So, i’ve wrote a small manuals for you, Mac OS & Linux users =)

Install

Install under Mac OSX (10.5+)

  1. install python 2.6 from MacPorts, because python’s select.poll lib doesn’t work on MacOSX bundled python:
    • sudo macports install python26
    • sudo macports install python_select
    • sudo python_select python26
  2. install pysqlite for autocompletion:
  3. install phpsh:
    • git clone git://github.com/facebook/phpsh.git or download package here
    • cd phpsh
    • python setup.py build
    • sudo python setup.py install
    • cd /usr/local/bin
    • ln -s /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/phpsh

Install under Linux

  1. install pysqlite for autocompletion:
  2. install phpsh:
    • git clone git://github.com/facebook/phpsh.git or download package here
    • cd phpsh
    • python setup.py build
    • sudo python setup.py install

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