 <p>Use the Neo4jPHP driver from Josh Adell, there are also sample projects listet on </p> <p><a href="http://neo4j.org/develop/php" rel="nofollow">http://neo4j.org/develop/php</a></p> <p>I think there are no built-in ways to access the shell from Neo4jPHP but if you can use its http facilities, you can do something <a href="http://jexp.de/blog/2014/02/on-using-neo4j-shell-with-basic-auth-over-http-on-a-remote-server/" rel="nofollow">like I did here</a>.</p>