Create a PHP Phar file

a_phar.md

Create a PHP Phar file

Run: php create-phar.php

app.phar successfully created

Start a phar file

Run: php app.phar

App started

app_index.php

<?php 

// Filename: app/index.php

// Optional load composer autoloader
//require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

echo "App started";

create-phar.php

<?php

// better set to php.ini phar.readonly = 0
ini_set("phar.readonly", 0); 

$pharFile = 'app.phar';

// clean up
if (file_exists($pharFile)) {
    unlink($pharFile);
}
if (file_exists($pharFile . '.gz')) {
    unlink($pharFile . '.gz');
}

// create phar
$p = new Phar($pharFile);

// creating our library using whole directory  
$p->buildFromDirectory('app/');

// pointing main file which requires all classes  
$p->setDefaultStub('index.php', '/index.php');

// plus - compressing it into gzip  
$p->compress(Phar::GZ);
   
echo "$pharFile successfully created";