The first alias for PHP

Dec 8, 2013 15:45 · 108 words · 1 minute read php

Recently, I joined a web service company and the language we use is PHP. I am not so familiar with PHP, and I want to have the same experience as Ruby, using irb to play with some functions. The PHP does give developers having the same interactive environment. My first guess war using php -i to get into the interactive environment, but it was wrong, this shows tons of PHP information. After using man to figure out, the correct flag is -a or --interactive. Since, I already use irb all the time, so I make a similar command, iphp, to easily get into interactive environment.

	alias iphp='php -a'