PHP interactive shell and NO newline with echo

Question

I have compiled PHP with the --with-readline option and I got the interactive shell, but I have an annoying problem, when I echo something the echo doesn't print a newline character I mean:

****@****-PC ~ $ php -a
Interactive mode enabled

php > echo 1+2;
3php > echo "Hello World!";
Hello World!php >

Where is the problem? How can I resolve it? Because watching here it prints a newline.

Answer 1

If you want to force the interactive mode to always output a newline, you can declare it as such on startup:

php -dcli.prompt="\nphp> " -a

(Or rather adapt the php.ini)