No output from PHP interactive on Windows

Question

I\'m running php interactively from xampp (5.4.7) on my Win 7 machine and cannot get any output from the window. I searched around various solutions and nothing so far has

Answer 1

When using the Interactive Mode, you literally need to input the whole script.

Then to "execute" the script, you need to do CTRL+Z on an empty line and press ENTER