A better interactive php shell is made by facebook, to get it, just do:
git clone git://github.com/facebook/phpsh.git cd phpsh python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install
It's fast, cool and doesn't break when you misprint variable name of function:
Just published my PHP wildcard matching function on github - https://github.com/andrewtch/phpwildcard.
See doc there and use it like this:
wildcard_match('foo.*', 'foo.xy'); //true wildcard_match('foo.?', 'foo'); //false
array wildcard matching is supported too:
wildcard_match('foo.*', array('boo.bar', 'foo.buz', 'buz.bar') // array('foo.buz')