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facebookarchive/phpsh

A read-eval-print-loop for php observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/facebookarchive/phpsh · homepage · Emacs Lisp · BSD-3-Clause (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 6329
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 4494
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1144 stars · 135 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

phpsh is an interactive read-eval-print-loop (REPL) shell for PHP, developed at Facebook and written mostly in Python. It offers readline history, tab completion, quick documentation access, and ctags integration for exploring codebases.

Use cases

  • interactive php repl
  • test php snippets in a shell
  • explore a php codebase interactively
  • php shell with tab completion
  • quickly evaluate php expressions from terminal

When to choose

  • you want an interactive PHP shell on a legacy PHP 5 environment
  • you need ctags-integrated exploration of a PHP codebase from the terminal

When to avoid

  • you need a maintained or supported tool - the project is archived since 2014
  • your PHP binary already includes the readline module (pure PHP alternatives exist)
  • you use modern PHP 7/8 features

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

developer-tools cli developer-tools programming-languages cli python repl php interactive-shell readline archived facebook command-line linux macos

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
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