Hi internals, I've created a new RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/readline_interactive_shell_result_function adding a way to configure a callback to be called to dump the value of single-expression statements from `php -a` (and an ini setting that can be disabled to prevent that callback from being called).
Many REPLs (Read-Eval-Print Loops) for other programming languages that I'm familiar with print a (possibly truncated) representation of the result of expressions, but PHP doesn't. It would be useful to allow users to extend the functionality of the default interactive php shell (php -a), possibly with auto_prepend_file or through use of command wrappers/aliases, or after loading the shell. Prior to this RFC, there was no way to extend the interactive php shell in this way. (I've seen https://github.com/bobthecow/psysh mentioned as an alternative for php -a while investigating this, but that's a shell written from scratch, and doesn't have some functionality from php -a such as tolerance of fatal errors) Because PHP's interactive shell is written in C, adding new features or bug fixes is inconvenient - it would require a lot of time getting familiar with C programming, PHP's internals and memory management, and with PHP's internal C ast representation. It would be easier and more accessible to extend PHP's interactive shell through code written in PHP rather than code written in C. This was among the proposed enhancements I brought up in https://externals.io/message/111073 . An earlier version of the implementation was also created months ago - https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5962 Thanks, - Tyson -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
