Description: ------------ using the arrow keys causes strange characters to be written to the screen, rather than navigating through whats been typed or the command history. Test script: --------------- :php-shell.sh PHP-Shell - Version 0.3.0 (c) 2006, Jan Kneschke <jan@kneschke.de> >> use '?' to open the inline help >> array(); array ( ) >> ^[[A^[[C^[[B^[[D^[[B

I think this is not a bug. You need to have installed the readline library in your php. You can check in the php-shell runing the function function_exists('readline'), if it return false, then you have not support for readline, and you can't use arrow keys. The solution is compile the php with readline support or install a precompiled php package with readline support activated.

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. This is the expected behavior when the PHP has been compiled without readline library support.