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Phar::__construct

(PHP >= 5.3.0, PECL phar >= 1.0.0)

Phar::__constructConstruct a Phar archive object

Description

Phar::__construct ( string $fname [, int $flags [, string $alias ]] )

Parameters

fname

Path to an existing Phar archive or to-be-created archive

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');
?>


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