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dava
11 years ago
Here is an apache2 htaccess example that prevents the downloading of phar-Archives by the user:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.phar$ - [F]

It triggers a "403 - Forbidden" message instead of delivering the archive.
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bohwaz
13 years ago
If you get blank pages when trying to access a phar web-page, then you probably have Suhosin on your PHP (like in Debian and Ubuntu), and you need to ad this to your php.ini to allow execution of PHAR archives :

suhosin.executor.include.whitelist="phar"
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v-mafick at microsoft dot com
11 years ago
Users should set the `sys_temp_dir` directive.

PHAR stores temporary files in either `sys_temp_dir` or the current working directory(CWD).

This is especially important if you're CWD is on a remote file system. Often web server clusters will share a common file system between each web server (using NFS, DFS, etc...). In such scenarios, if you don't set `sys_temp_dir` to a local directory, PHAR will be creating temporary files over the network, which will result in performance and functionality problems.
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brunoczim
7 years ago
Here is a very simple program for creating phar files with CLI. Note that it requires phar.readonly in php.ini set to false (Off).

<?php
$filename
= "default";
$dir = "./";
$regex = "/^(?!.*build\\.php)(?:.*)$/";
$main = "main.php";
$shebang = "#!/usr/bin/env php";
$chmod = true;

for (
$i = 0; $i < $argc; $i++) {
switch (
$argv[$i]) {
case
"-o":
$i++;
if (
$i >= $argc) {
echo
"Missing output file name" . PHP_EOL;
exit(
1);
}
$filename = $argv[$i];
break;
case
"-i":
$i++;
if (
$i >= $argc) {
echo
"Missing input directory name" . PHP_EOL;
exit(
1);
}
$dir = $argv[$i];
break;
case
"-p":
$i++;
if (
$i >= $argc) {
echo
"Missing regular expression pattern" . PHP_EOL;
exit(
1);
}
$regex = $argv[$i];
break;
case
"-m":
$i++;
if (
$i >= $argc) {
echo
"Missing main file" . PHP_EOL;
exit(
1);
}
$main = $argv[$i];
break;
case
"-b":
$i++;
if (
$i >= $argc) {
echo
"Missing shebang of file" . PHP_EOL;
exit(
1);
}
$shebang = $argv[$i];
break;
case
"--no-chmod":
$chmod = false;
break;
}
}
if (
file_exists($filename)) unlink($filename);
$phar = new Phar($filename);
$phar->buildFromDirectory($dir, $regex);
$phar->setStub(($shebang ? $shebang . PHP_EOL : "") . $phar->createDefaultStub($main));
if (
$chmod) {
chmod($filename, fileperms($phar) | 0700);
}
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lemonkid from OpenToAll
6 years ago
when read via phar://, stream will unserialize object including phar file

Use this to create phar
<?php
// create new Phar
$phar = new Phar('lemon.phar');
$phar->startBuffering();
$phar->addFromString('test.txt', 'text');
$phar->setStub('<?php __HALT_COMPILER(); ? >');

// add object of any class as meta data
class AnyClass {}
$object = new AnyClass;
$object->data = 'Chanh';
$phar->setMetadata($object);
$phar->stopBuffering();
?>

and read it by:
<?php
class AnyClass {
function
__destruct() {
echo
$this->data;
}
}
// output: Chanh
file_get_contents('phar://test.phar');
?>
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t dot habenreich at web dot de
11 years ago
Here is a very simple class to build a phar file from a given source directory. You can use this for your own project and simple deployment.

But my main goal was to show how to use PHAR functions in a simple way.

<?php

class BuildPhar
{
private
$_sourceDirectory = null;
private
$_stubFile = null;
private
$_outputDirectory = null;
private
$_pharFileName = null;

/**
* @param $_sourceDirectory // This is the directory where your project is stored.
* @param $stubFile // Name the entry point for your phar file. This file have to be within the source
* directory.
* @param null $_outputDirectory // Directory where the phar file will be placed.
* @param string $pharFileName // Name of your final *.phar file.
*/
public function __construct($_sourceDirectory, $stubFile, $_outputDirectory = null, $pharFileName = 'myPhar.phar') {

if ((
file_exists($_sourceDirectory) === false) || (is_dir($_sourceDirectory) === false)) {
throw new
Exception('No valid source directory given.');
}
$this->_sourceDirectory = $_sourceDirectory;

if (
file_exists($this->_sourceDirectory.'/'.$stubFile) === false) {
throw new
Exception('Your given stub file doesn\'t exists.');
}

$this->_stubFile = $stubFile;

if(empty(
$pharFileName) === true) {
throw new
Exception('Your given output name for your phar-file is empty.');
}
$this->_pharFileName = $pharFileName;

if ((empty(
$_outputDirectory) === true) || (file_exists($_outputDirectory) === false) || (is_dir($_outputDirectory) === false)) {

if (
$_outputDirectory !== null) {
trigger_error ( 'Your output directory is invalid. We set the fallback to: "'.dirname(__FILE__).'".', E_USER_WARNING);
}

$this->_outputDirectory = dirname(__FILE__);
} else {
$this->_outputDirectory = $_outputDirectory;
}

$this->prepareBuildDirectory();
$this->buildPhar();
}

private function
prepareBuildDirectory() {
if (
preg_match('/.phar$/', $this->_pharFileName) == FALSE) {
$this->_pharFileName .= '.phar';
}

if (
file_exists($this->_pharFileName) === true) {
unlink($this->_pharFileName);
}
}

private function
buildPhar() {
$phar = new Phar($this->_outputDirectory.'/'.$this->_pharFileName);
$phar->buildFromDirectory($this->_sourceDirectory);
$phar->setDefaultStub($this->_stubFile);
}
}
//END Class

//Example Usage:
$builder = new BuildPhar(
dirname(__FILE__).'/_source',
'my_default_stub.php',
dirname(__FILE__).'/_output',
'my-phar-file.phar'
);
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