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Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

What makes a phar a phar and not a tar or a zip?

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Ingredients of all Phar archives, independent of file format

All Phar archives contain three to four sections:

  1. a stub

  2. a manifest describing the contents

  3. the file contents

  4. [optional] a signature for verifying Phar integrity (phar file format only)



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<Creating Phar ArchivesPhar file stub>
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