How to use PsySH with a Yii application

config.php

<?php

return array(
    'eraseDuplicates' => true,
    'historySize' => 100,
);

init.php

<?php

ini_set('memory_limit', -1);
$yiidir = dirname(__FILE__).'/../../../yii/framework/';
$appdir = dirname(__FILE__).'/../../';
require_once($yiidir.'yii.php');
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ (E_STRICT|E_NOTICE));
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = '/index.php';
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = $yiidir.'index.php';
$_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] = 80;
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = 'localhost';
$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] = 'localhost';
Yii::createWebApplication($appdir.'config/main.php');
$version = Yii::getVersion();
echo <<<EOD
Yii Interactive Tool v1.1 (based on Yii v{$version})
Please type 'help' for help. Type 'exit' to quit.

EOD;

PsySH_with_Yii.md

Using PsySH (GitHub) as the Yii shell

• Issue the following commands from the command line in your Yii application directory:
  • chmod +x shell
  • mkdir extensions/yiishell
  • wget -O extensions/yiishell/psysh psysh.org/psysh
  • chmod +x extensions/yiishell/psysh
• Copy the file init.php below to extensions/yiishell/init.php and update any paths to work with your application configuration
• Copy the file config.php below to extensions/yiishell/config.php. Change or add to the config array with the options you'd like to use (available options)
• Now you can start PsySH with the command extensions/yiishell/psysh extensions/yiishell/init.php --config extensions/yiishell/config.php
  • Alternatively, for an easy way to start the shell, copy the shell script below to your application directory, then run ./shell

shell

#!/bin/sh -x

./extensions/yiishell/psysh ./extensions/yiishell/init.php --config ./extensions/yiishell/config.php

Thanks for this guide! I wrote a version for Yii2 here:
https://gist.github.com/cornernote/ccf7e62d965497369185

Almost exactly the same, just copied the code from yii cli script into init.php and removed $application->run().