Creating Phar archives

Create files for your app:

• project_location
  • create.php
  • src
    • index.php

create.php will be generator for phar archives, and inside src will be php application.

<?php
// src/index.php
echo 'hello world';

<?php
// create.php
$pharFile = 'scriptun.phar';
$p = new Phar($pharFile);
$p->buildFromDirectory('src/');
$p->setDefaultStub('index.php', '/index.php');

Now run from terminal:

php project_location/create.php

Phar should be created, but you can have error message:

Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: creating archive "scriptun.phar" disabled by the php.ini setting phar.readonly

Edit your php.ini and set correct value, find "phar.readonly" and set:

# php.ini
phar.readonly = Off

If Phar was successfully created you should see output from your application:

php scriptun.phar
> hello world

Phar application can be compressed:

<?php
// create.php
$p = new Phar('scriptun.phar');
$p->buildFromDirectory('src/');
$p->setDefaultStub('index.php', '/index.php');
// compression examples
$p->compress(Phar::GZ);
$p->compress(Phar::BZ2);

Additionally there will be bz2 and gz file generated. You can use it like phar file:

php scriptun.phar.bz2