Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP DEV] [Discussion] Native terminal helpers for PHP CLI

On Wed, Sep 16, 2026, at 11:49 PM, Pratik Bhujel wrote:
> Hi Derick,
>
> Wanted to share a quick update since June.
>
> I ended up implementing your stream suggestions in the v0.6.0 and 
> v0.7.0 releases. All methods now accept native stream resources (like 
> STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, and php:// streams) directly alongside the 
> enums. I also published it to Packagist, and installing through PIE 
> works cleanly now. I also added prebuilt Windows x64 DLLs to the 
> releases so folks on Windows can test without compiling from source.
>
> My main motivation is still Windows CLI support. Tools like Laravel 
> Prompts and Symfony Console still drop into dumb text fallbacks on 
> Windows simply because core has no native raw mode or single key 
> reading primitives.
>
> Now that the PIE package is working across Linux, macOS, and Windows, I 
> wanted to check if you think this is worth bringing up as an RFC for 
> 8.5 or 8.6, or if it is better to keep gathering feedback through PIE 
> first?
>
> Thanks,
> Pratik

At this point it would be an RFC for 8.7, as 8.5 is already released and 8.6 is frozen.

As I've not used it yet I cannot speak to when an RFC would be appropriate.  However, I will note that libraries moving from PECL to php-src in the past have often undergone changes in the process, so they're not a direct transfer/rename.  Whether that is an argument to move it to core sooner or later I leave as an exercise for the reader.  (I could likely argue either way, really.)

--Larry Garfield