note 98642 deleted from features.commandline.interactive by cmb

Note Submitter: Anonymous ---- It seems the interactive shell cannot be made to work in WIN environments at the moment. Using "php://stdin", it shouldn't be too difficult to roll your own. You can partially mimic the shell by calling this simple script (Note: Window's cmd already has an input history calling feature using the up/down keys, and that functionality will still be available during execution here): <?php $fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r"); $in = ''; while($in != "quit") { echo "php> "; $in=trim(fgets($fp)); eval ($in); echo "\n"; } ?> Replace 'eval' with code to parse the input string, validate it using is_callable and other variable handling functions, catch fatal errors before they happen, allow line-by-line function defining, etc. Though Readline is not available in Windows, for more tips and examples for workarounds, see http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.readline.php