From 688cc56f14d5676aa90f86426a3e76bee59c45cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 12:14:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #51695: CLI interactive mode broken without
 readline/editline

---
 features/commandline.xml | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/features/commandline.xml b/features/commandline.xml
index a00b32660bc0..ad2b3b89dcab 100644
--- a/features/commandline.xml
+++ b/features/commandline.xml
@@ -1594,6 +1594,17 @@ php >
     defined before called.
    </para>
   </note>
+
+  <section xml:id="features.commandline.interactive.mode">
+   <title>Interactive mode</title>
+   <para>
+    If the readline extension is not available, invoking the &cli.sapi; with the
+    <option>-a</option> option provides the interactive mode. In this mode, a
+    complete PHP script is supposed to be given via STDIN, and after termination
+    with <literal>CRTL+d</literal> (POSIX) or <literal>CTRL+z</literal>
+    followed by <literal>ENTER</literal> (Windows), this script is evaluated.
+   </para>
+  </section>
  </section>
  <!--}}}-->