PHP Manual: Construct a Phar archive object

Description

public Phar::__construct(string $filename, int $flags = FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS | FilesystemIterator::UNIX_PATHS, stringnull $alias = null)

Parameters

filename: Path to an existing Phar archive or to-be-created archive. The file name's extension must contain .phar.
flags: Flags to pass to parent class RecursiveDirectoryIterator.
alias: Alias with which this Phar archive should be referred to in calls to stream functionality.

Errors/Exceptions

Throws BadMethodCallException if called twice, UnexpectedValueException if the phar archive can't be opened.

Examples

Example #1 A Phar::__construct example

<?php
try {
    $p = new Phar('/path/to/my.phar', FilesystemIterator::CURRENT_AS_FILEINFO | FilesystemIterator::KEY_AS_FILENAME,
                  'my.phar');
} catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
    die('Could not open my.phar');
} catch (BadMethodCallException $e) {
    echo 'technically, this cannot happen';
}
// this works now
echo file_get_contents('phar://my.phar/example.txt');
// and works as if we had typed
echo file_get_contents('phar:///path/to/my.phar/example.txt');
?>