Is there a better console for PHP than running in interactive mode

Question

Is there something like ipython for PHP? Syntax highlighting and not having the console exit to shell on the first exception would be nice to haves. :)

Answer 1

Never tried, but http://david.acz.org/phpa/ sounded promising. The page also lists two alternatives which might be worth to investigate. There were also some musings that the builtin php -a was refurbished in php-trunk/5.4. So maybe try the SVN version (at least it supports non-ASCII input).