PHP REPL / Tinker

Overview

The PHP REPL (Tinker) tab gives you a full interactive PHP environment — either on a remote server via SSH or locally. It automatically detects Laravel projects on the target host.

Features

• Syntax highlighting for PHP with line numbers
• Autocomplete — PHP functions + Laravel-specific: Eloquent, Facades, Helpers
• Ghost text — AI-powered inline code completions as you type
• Output rendering — Pretty-prints dump() and dd() output. Table mode for tabular data.
• Execution history — Browse and re-run previous commands
• Snippet management — Save, load, and delete Tinker code snippets (persisted per-user)
• AI code generation — Describe what you want and get PHP code
• Auto-semicolon — Automatically adds missing semicolons
• Resizable split — Drag to resize editor and output panels
• Project detection — Browse for local or remote Laravel project paths

Example

// Query all users who signed up this month
User::where('created_at', '>=', now()->startOfMonth())
    ->select('name', 'email', 'created_at')
    ->get();

The output appears in the output panel as a formatted table.