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format
Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson
PHP Benelux, 27th of January 2012
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3. Helgi
Co-founded Orchestra.io
Work at EngineYard
PEAR Developer
From Iceland
@h on Twitter
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5. Phar
=
PHP Archive
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7. Phar
PHP Extension
Built in / default from 5.3 onwards
More Powerful than PHP_Archive
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8. PEAR: PHP_Archive
Reference implementation
User Land Code
Less Powerful
Works on older PHP
Not maintained anymore
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14. The special sauce
1. Stub
2. Manifest
3. File Contents
4. Signature (optional)
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15. Manifest
List of Files
File Permission
File Compression
Meta Data
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16. Compression
Whole Archive
Per file
Available Compressions
gzip, bz2 and zip
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17. Stub
Piece of PHP code
Bootstraping
Autoloader
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18. Get all the code used in
this talk and more!
https://github.com/helgi/phar-talk
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23. Streams Usage
fopen / fwrite / fclose
file_get_contents
opendir / rmdir / mkdir
anything that works with streams
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27. Can be ran without the
extension
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32. Setup Tools
go-pear.phar
PEAR installation in PHP builds
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34. Plugins
Lithium
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37. Handy
Packaging!
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40. Pros
Single download with all dependencies
Run multiple versions in parallel
Upgrades are easy
No unpacking
Security against modifications
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41. Cons
Incremental updates (no deltas)
Upgrading is a manual process
Web server may need changes
Extending the application is harder
README / INSTALL become hard to reach
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46. Not used when phar file
is used via streams
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50. No Phar::WebPhar()
Simple file include
Shebang for easy execution
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60. Remember, everything
goes via PHP
Extract static files to a directory
and serve from there
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63. Suhosin
Enabled by default in Debian and Ubuntu
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65. Signature
Hashes: OpenSSL
MD5
SHA1
SHA256
SHA512
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66. Hashes
By default executable Phar is signed SHA1
Tar / Zip are not unless specified
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68. Phar::mount()
Mount external files, such as config, into
the phar archive
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69. PharData
Phar archives can be extracted to disk
Can operate on non-phar gzip and tar
extract and compress archives
Like PDO for archives! :-)
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70. Useful Tools
phar-util
https://github.com/koto/phar-util
empir
http://empir.sourceforge.net/
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71. Get all the code used in
this talk and more!
https://github.com/helgi/phar-talk
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72. Come to the winter party tomorrow!
Beer and food is on me :-)
And some awesome swag!
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73. Questions?
@h
helgi@engineyard.com
https://github.com/helgi/phar-talk
Joind.in: http://joind.in/4755
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