No more than you could with any other execution environment. Autoloaders should find your libraries if you are using the same entry point, and you can query a m

No more than you could with any other execution environment. Autoloaders should find your libraries if you are using the same entry point, and you can query a model as you could in any other language. It looks like people have made something like this for CakePHP: http://josediazgonzalez.com/2013/12/04/interactive-command-line-repl/ http://josediazgonzalez.com/2013/12/04/interactive-command-l... And there are some REPLs with tab completion: https://github.com/ErikDubbelboer/php-repl https://github.com/ErikDubbelboer/php-repl