Php Uses I/O Stream To Get input.
fopen ("php://stdin","r") // open a read stream
So to get a input from user in cli.
echo "Type Something: "
$r_stream = fopen ("php://stdin","r");
$input = trim(fgets($r_stream));
echo = "\n";
echo "You Entered ".$input;
You can run the php file by opening your CMD in a Windows machine or Terminal in Linux based machine
And Getting to the directory in which file is stored and typing the command below.
php file_name.php