Re: first php 5 class

On 1/30/08, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote: > php has an interactive shell; php -a. > therein you have access to anything in the language your > include path, or the local disc. You obviously have a very different understanding of the word "interactive". php -a seems pretty broken to me: > php -a Interactive mode enabled sprintf( '%f^[[3~^[[3~ My backspace doesn't work. Ctrl-C to start over. I'm guessing I would lose any local variables at this point? > php -a Interactive mode enabled echo 'foo'; So where's the output? > php -a Interactive mode enabled ^[[A Aww.. no up-arrow history either? php -a doesn't work very well from where I sit. IRB actually works: > irb >> [].class => Array >> [].methods.sort => ["&", "*", "+", "-", "<<", "<=>", "==", "===", "=~", "[]", "[]=", "__id__", "__send__", "all?", "any?", "assoc", "at", "class", "clear", "clone", "collect", "collect!", "compact", "compact!", "concat", "delete", "delete_at", "delete_if", "detect", "display", "dup", "each", "each_index", "each_with_index", "empty?", "entries", "eql?", "equal?", "extend", "fetch", "fill", "find", "find_all", "first", "flatten", "flatten!", "freeze", "frozen?", "gem", "grep", "hash", "id", "include?", "index", "indexes", "indices", "inject", "insert", "inspect", "instance_eval", "instance_of?", "instance_variable_defined?", "instance_variable_get", "instance_variable_set", "instance_variables", "is_a?", "join", "kind_of?", "last", "length", "map", "map!", "max", "member?", "method", "methods", "min", "nil?", "nitems", "object_id", "pack", "partition", "po", "poc", "pop", "pretty_inspect", "pretty_print", "pretty_print_cycle", "pretty_print_inspect", "pretty_print_instance_variables", "private_methods", "protected_methods", "public_methods", "push", "rassoc", "reject", "reject!", "replace", "require", "respond_to?", "reverse", "reverse!", "reverse_each", "ri", "rindex", "select", "send", "shift", "singleton_methods", "size", "slice", "slice!", "sort", "sort!", "sort_by", "taint", "tainted?", "to_a", "to_ary", "to_s", "transpose", "type", "uniq", "uniq!", "unshift", "untaint", "values_at", "zip", "|"] And since you can't see it I will also mention that IRB has beautiful syntax highlighting. > however, ive never heard of an extension whereby the debugger > drops you into a 'php -a' session. > > and btw. php does have pecl and pear, these are both modular Every time I ever went to the PEAR site I played a game of 'how many times do I have to click before I dig down deep enough to realize the docs aren't really there'. Meanwhile every gem you install with Ruby has an rdoc package with complete api docs for the gem. You just fire up your local `gem server` and browse to http://localhost:8808/ to view complete api docs, offline or on. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/