How to Create Phar Archives in PHP?

[Leoniee]

Hello everyone,
I need more help from you guys. Since I am not expert in PHP programming language, I am facing number of doubts. So thought to post here, since you guys explain very well.!! Now I want some information about the Phar Archive. Please explain me how to Create Phar Archives in PHP? Any other information related to the topic would be grateful.!!

[MELTRONICS]

Phar archives are similar in concept to Java JAR archives, but are designed specifically for the needs and the flexibility of PHP applications. A Phar archive is used to distribute a complete PHP application or library as a single file. Unlike Java, no external tool is required to handle or run a PHP Phar archive. An application form Phar archive is used exactly the same way as any other PHP application :

php applicationsympa.phar 

[Solitario]

The phar stream wrapper provides the core of the phar extension. The phar stream wrapper allows access to files within a phar archive using the standard file functions fopen (), opendir (), and any other operating on regular files. The phar stream wrapper supports all operations of reading / writing to both managed al the files and directories. The class Phar implements advanced functionality for accessing files and creating phar archives. Since version 2.0.0, class Phar also provides three static methods, Phar:: webPhar (), Phar:: mungServer () and Phar:: interceptFileFuncs () that are critical to package PHP applications to be used on a conventional file system or as an application site.

[Allan.d]

The class Phar supports reading and manipulation of Phar archives, as well as iteration through the functionality inherited from class RecursiveDirectoryIterator. With the support of the interface ArrayAccess, the files contained within a Phar archive can be accessed as if they were members of an associative array. The class PharData class extends Phar, and allows the creation and modification of tarballs and zip files non-executable (data) even if phar.readonly = 1 in php.ini. It is important to note that when a Phar archive is created, the full path must be passed to the constructor of the object Phar. A relative path would prevent initialization.

[kyosang]

All Phar archives contain the following three to four sections :

1. A container
2. A manifest describing the contents
3. The contents of the file
4. A signature (optional) to check the integrity (only with the phar file format)

Phar A container is a simple PHP file. The minimum container contains :

<?php __HALT_COMPILER();

A container must contain at least the token __HALT_COMPILER (); in conclusion. Typically, a container features include load following :

<?php 
Phar :: mapPhar (); 
include 'phar://demophar.phar/index.php' ; 
__HALT_COMPILER();

[Deabelos]

In a phar archive based on tar or zip, the container is stored in the file .phar / stub.php. The default container Phar archive based on phar contains approximately 7kb of code to extract the contents of pharmaceutical and run it. Or sometimes the phar is stored in the case of phar-based archive tar or zip file in .phar / alias.txt as plain text. PHP can not directly access the contents of a Phar archive without the Phar extension is installed if it uses a container that extracts the contents of the phar archive. The container created by Phar:: createDefaultStub () extracts the phar archive and execute its contents from a temporary directory if no phar extension is found.