diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/CHANGELOG.md b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/CHANGELOG.md
index a5f1722bae..ee0459e13d 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ CHANGELOG
 
  * added support for colorization on Windows via ConEmu
  * add a method to Dialog Helper to ask for a question and hide the response
+ * added support for interactive selections in console (DialogHelper::select())
 
 2.1.0
 -----
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Helper/DialogHelper.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Helper/DialogHelper.php
index 232343454e..baeeefc591 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Helper/DialogHelper.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Helper/DialogHelper.php
@@ -24,6 +24,40 @@ class DialogHelper extends Helper
     private static $shell;
     private static $stty;
 
+    /**
+     * Asks the user to select a value.
+     *
+     * @param OutputInterface $output       An Output instance
+     * @param string|array    $question     The question to ask
+     * @param array           $choices      List of choices to pick from
+     * @param Boolean         $default      The default answer if the user enters nothing
+     * @param integer|false   $attempts     Max number of times to ask before giving up (false by default, which means infinite)
+     * @param string          $errorMessage Message which will be shown if invalid value from choice list would be picked
+     *
+     * @return integer|string The selected value (the key of the choices array)
+     */
+    public function select(OutputInterface $output, $question, $choices, $default = null, $attempts = false, $errorMessage = 'Value "%s" is invalid')
+    {
+        $width = max(array_map('strlen', array_keys($choices)));
+
+        $messages = (array) $question;
+        foreach ($choices as $key => $value) {
+            $messages[] = sprintf("  [<info>%-${width}s</info>] %s", $key, $value);
+        }
+
+        $output->writeln($messages);
+
+        $result = $this->askAndValidate($output, '> ', function ($picked) use ($choices, $errorMessage) {
+            if (empty($choices[$picked])) {
+                throw new \InvalidArgumentException(sprintf($errorMessage, $picked));
+            }
+
+            return $picked;
+        }, $attempts, $default);
+
+        return $result;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Asks a question to the user.
      *
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Helper/DialogHelperTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Helper/DialogHelperTest.php
index 658ab69b4c..d0da968a15 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Helper/DialogHelperTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Helper/DialogHelperTest.php
@@ -18,6 +18,31 @@ use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\StreamOutput;
 
 class DialogHelperTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 {
+    public function testSelect()
+    {
+        $dialog = new DialogHelper();
+
+        $helperSet = new HelperSet(array(new FormatterHelper()));
+        $dialog->setHelperSet($helperSet);
+
+        $heroes = array('Superman', 'Batman', 'Spiderman');
+
+        $dialog->setInputStream($this->getInputStream("\n1\nFabien\n1\nFabien\nFabien\n"));
+        $this->assertEquals('2', $dialog->select($this->getOutputStream(), 'What is your favorite superhero?', $heroes, '2'));
+        $this->assertEquals('1', $dialog->select($this->getOutputStream(), 'What is your favorite superhero?', $heroes));
+        $this->assertEquals('1', $dialog->select($output = $this->getOutputStream(), 'What is your favorite superhero?', $heroes, null, false, 'Input "%s" is not a superhero!'));
+
+        rewind($output->getStream());
+        $this->assertContains('Input "Fabien" is not a superhero!', stream_get_contents($output->getStream()));
+
+        try {
+            $this->assertEquals('1', $dialog->select($output = $this->getOutputStream(), 'What is your favorite superhero?', $heroes, null, 1));
+            $this->fail();
+        } catch (\InvalidArgumentException $e) {
+            $this->assertEquals('Value "Fabien" is invalid', $e->getMessage());
+        }
+    }
+
     public function testAsk()
     {
         $dialog = new DialogHelper();