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PHAR files: what are they and how do I open them?

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PHP Extension and Application Repository archive

A phar file extension is used for PHP Extension and Application Repository archive files. Phar file is used to store php files in one data archive, or to distribute PHP applications. To create and extract the Phar archive use Phar component distributed with PHP 5.3 and above.

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The phar file extension is associated with the PHP (Hypertext PreProcessor) server side scripting language version 5.3 and above. PHP is used to create dynamic web pages and Internet applications.

The phar (PHP Extension and Application Repository) file format is used for archiving PHP files in one archive file as well as to distribute PHP applications in one file. Phar archives can use bzip2, or gzip compression file format.

The Phar component that is able to create and extract PHP Phar archives is a part of PHP 5.3 distribution and above.

The phar files are similar to jar files (Java) and can be run using PHP.
An small example of a common PHP application that is distributed as a PHAR archive is PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository).

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