Extracting files from .phar archive

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There is something I entirely missed as for phar files. I am installing a project that requires phpunit, pdepend and other dependencies. I fetched them as .phar files. But, I am not able ot extract the files from them using command line tool (php command). I googled the problem, and I found nothing really answering the question. Could anyone help ?

Why would you want to extract them? You can use them directly as phar, see: http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/924-Using-PHPUnit-from-a-PHP-Archive-PHAR.html — Dennis Haarbrink, Oct 21 '12 at 11:33

score 98 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '14 at 08:34

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Extending on @pozs’s answer, you can actually use PharData->extractTo in a simple one-liner:

php -r '$phar = new Phar("phar-file.phar"); $phar->extractTo("./directory");'

answered Jan 20 '14 at 08:34

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did not work for me on windows PHP 5.6 `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ''$phar' (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE) in Command line code on line 1` – Oliboy50 Mar 21 '15 at 07:33
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@Oliboy50 Invert the `'` and `"` as `php -r "$phar = new Phar('phar-file.phar'); $phar->extractTo('./directory');"`. Probably a Windows-related quotes stuff. – Xenos Sep 08 '15 at 20:10
Starting from PHP 5.4 you can even make it shorter: `(new Phar("phar-file.phar"))->extractTo("./directory");` – Gras Double Feb 24 '17 at 03:02
To fix the phar readonly error I did `php -d phar.readonly=Off -r '(new Phar("phar-file.phar"))->extractTo("./directory");'` – Scott P. Jan 28 '21 at 17:31

score 72 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 03:51

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Not sure if it's new, but under PHP 5.4.16 this works:

phar extract -f %some phar file%

The phar is extracted relative to your current working directory.

answered Mar 25 '14 at 03:51

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Works in Php 5.3.3 too – ellipse-of-uncertainty May 13 '14 at 17:44
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windows php 5.6 needs phar.phar extract -f %some phar file% – Magicianeer Oct 10 '15 at 00:56
@Magicianeer that might just be how the phar command is installed in your environment, e.g even in Windows you should be able to rename `phar.phar` to `phar` and then the normal command would work. – lyte Apr 15 '19 at 23:25

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '12 at 11:30

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Yes, this library can do it: https://github.com/koto/phar-util

phar-extract library.phar output-directory

answered Oct 21 '12 at 11:30

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Note that it seems not to work well with Phar archives [whose contents were gzipped](http://www.php.net/manual/en/pharfileinfo.compress.php). At least to me on Windows, but being a development setup, it has gzip, bz2, etc. so it should be able to extract them, but the results are mangled (and don't seem to be even valid as .gz files). The directory structure comes out correctly, though. – Camilo Martin Nov 15 '13 at 21:56

score 14 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 25 '15 at 15:34

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PhpStorm IDE can be used for viewing content of phar archives.

answered Jul 25 '15 at 15:34

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Doesn't work in my case. I'm using the latest current version (2016.3 I believe), and I cannot open a phar file. – The Onin Dec 07 '16 at 00:55
Sometimes you need to restart PhpStorm to get the file indexed. – ya.teck Dec 07 '16 at 05:35
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Tried that as well, to no avail. – The Onin Dec 08 '16 at 23:46

score 8 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 11 '19 at 18:56

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This site converts .phar files to .zip files easily.

Try it out.

edited Jul 11 '19 at 18:56

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answered Jun 03 '14 at 06:08

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score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 21 '12 at 11:32

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If you want to just using it, you should include as phar:///path/to/myphar.phar/file.php.

But if you really want to unpack it, see the PharData class - no known (internal) extraction in command line, but you can write a script for that.

answered Oct 21 '12 at 11:32

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Josef · Answer 7 · 2019-07-12T08:29:46.290

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PHP also has functions for extracting phar archives, but the files keep the current compression. To properly extract an archive it has to be converted into a uncompressed form first and then extracted:

<?php
$phar = new Phar('Someclass.phar');
$phar2 = $phar->convertToExecutable (Phar::TAR,Phar::NONE); // Convert to an uncompressed tar archive
$phar2->extractTo('/some/path/'); // Extract all files

This will give you all the files uncompressed!

edited Jul 12 '19 at 08:29

answered Jun 17 '15 at 12:37

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To extract readonly phar archives using cli use > php -dphar.readonly=0 extract.php the extract.php contains the code above . – Alin Razvan Jul 05 '19 at 03:33
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`php -dphar.readonly=0 -r '(new Phar("archive.phar"))->convertToExecutable(Phar::TAR,Phar::NONE)->extractTo("./output");'` – Alex Barker Feb 02 '20 at 07:57

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