php-ollama-chat-client

Very basic command line Ollama chat client written in simple PHP8.

How ?

php -e chat.php

php -e tool_test.php (the LLM has access to a tool function get_datetime.)

Requirements :

• Ollama
• PHP 8 CLI
• curl
• readline
• json

Why ?

• base-code for quick experiments ;
• base-code for prototyping function calling agents ;
• solves my python allergies ;

Warnings :

• only tested on Linux MATE Terminal
• uses terminal color codes (duno how it behaves on non compatible terminals)
• tools function calling does not work with all models that prentend to have the tools capabitily (on all model i tested, only qwen3 and llama3.2 are able to call tools, and sometimes granite3.3)