Autoloading Classes Into PHP Interactive Shell - php

Question

Am trying to run php Interactive shell from a php script. To be more specific, I want to be able to call my classes from interactive shell.
I manage to find this
# custom_interactive_shell.php
function proc($command, &$return_var = null, array &$stderr_output = null)
{
$return_var = null;
$stderr_output = [];
$descriptorspec = [
// Must use php://stdin(out) in order to allow display of command output
// and the user to interact with the process.
0 => ['file', 'php://stdin', 'r'],
1 => ['file', 'php://stdout', 'w'],
2 => ['pipe', 'w'],
];
$pipes = [];
$process = #proc_open($command, $descriptorspec, $pipes);
if (is_resource($process)) {
// Loop on process until it exits normally.
do {
$status = proc_get_status($process);
// If our stderr pipe has data, grab it for use later.
if (!feof($pipes[2])) {
// We're acting like passthru would and displaying errors as they come in.
$error_line = fgets($pipes[2]);
echo $error_line;
$stderr_output[] = $error_line;
}
} while ($status['running']);
// According to documentation, the exit code is only valid the first call
// after a process is finished. We can't rely on the return value of
// proc_close because proc_get_status will read the exit code first.
$return_var = $status['exitcode'];
proc_close($process);
}
}
proc('php -a -d auto_prepend_file=./vendor/autoload.php');
But its just not working, it tries to be interactive but freezes up a lot, and even after the lag it doesn't really execute commands properly.
Example:
> php custom_interactive_shell.php
Interactive shell
php > echo 1;
Warning: Use of undefined constant eo - assumed 'eo' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in php shell code on line 1

Answer 1

If you want to be able to run your PHP classes from an interactive shell then you can use the default one that ships with Terminal. From the terminal just type:
php -a
Then, in the below example I had created a file called Agency.php that had class Agency in it. I was able to require_once() it into the active shell and then call the class and its methods:
Interactive shell
php > require_once('Agency.php');
php > $a = new Agency();
php > $a->setname("some random name");
php > echo $a->getname();
some random name
You can also use the following in the interactive shell to autoload the files / classes in the current directory:
spl_autoload_register(function ($class_name) {
include $class_name . '.php';
});