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fieg/shell
==========

Interactive shell (cli) component for PHP

1.0(11y ago)321MITPHPPHP >=5.5

Since May 17Pushed 11y agoCompare

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Interactive shell (cli) component for PHP

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Getting started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

```
use Fieg\Shell\Shell;
use Fieg\Shell\ShellEvents;

$shell = new Shell();

// handle some commands
$shell->on(ShellEvents::COMMAND, function ($command) use ($shell) {
    switch ($command) {
        case "help":
            $shell->publish('Available commands:');
            $shell->publish('  help   Print this help');
            $shell->publish('  exit   Exit program');
            break;

        case "exit":
            $shell->stop();
            break;

        // echo everything else the user types
        default:
            $shell->publish('echo: ' . $command);
    }
});

// print some info
$shell->publish("This is an interactive shell.");
$shell->publish("Type 'help' for all available commands.");

// start a prompt so we can receive user input
$shell->prompt();

// statements after this are only executed when `$shell->stop()` is called
$shell->run();

echo "Bye!" . PHP_EOL;
```

This library also comes with a history support. With this you can use the up and down arrows to browse through the recently typed commands. To enable the history support, just wrap the Shell class in a HistoryDecorator:

```
$shell = new HistoryDecorator(new Shell());
```

You can also type the command "history" to see a list of all recently typed commands.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4019d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5eceacbc3912547ac51ba584798cc5a7c1bfae49b714978f62b6e1af389307dd?d=identicon)[fieg](/maintainers/fieg)

---

Top Contributors

[![fieg](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1086908?v=4)](https://github.com/fieg "fieg (4 commits)")

---

Tags

clishellinteractive

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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