PHP Manual
Function Reference
Compression and Archive Extensions
Phar
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
Using Phar Archives
Creating Phar Archives
What makes a phar a phar and not a tar or a zip?
Phar
PharData
PharFileInfo
PharException
Creating Phar Archives: Introduction
Ingredients of all Phar archives, independent of file format
Phar
PHP Manual
What makes a phar a phar and not a tar or a zip?
Table of Contents
Ingredients of all Phar archives, independent of file format
Phar file stub
Head-to-head comparison of Phar, Tar and Zip
Tar-based phars
Zip-based phars
Phar File Format
Global Phar bitmapped flags
Phar manifest file entry definition
Phar Signature format