Executing PHAR File using php 5.3.0/.1 on linux

[jatin]

Hello,
I am trying to make a simple PHAR archive work:
here's what I am trying to do : Create a .phar file that simply outputs "Hello world" on execution nothing fancy.
using :
- Ubuntu 9.10
- PHP 5.3.1, Apache 2 (using the xampp stack)
- I have set the phar.readonly to off in the php.ini
- I also added the httpd.conf setting to parse .phar as .php

code for index.php

    echo "Hello World";

here the code I use to create the phar (create.php)

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    error_reporting(E_ALL);
    ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
    $phar = new Phar('myphar.phar'); // I have even tried putting this as myphar.phar.php
    $phar->addFile("index.php");

I execute the create.php using :

php5.3.1 create.php

Now, above code does create a myphar.phar which is great but when I try to access this file using the command line

php5.3.1 myphar.phar

or even renamed and executed

php5.3.1 myphar.phar.php

it displays "&#65533;&#65533;???" <- some rubbish with boxes and ??? if you cannot see it, same case when using the browser too. renaming to it myphar.phar.php also has no effect.

I also tried setting the stub file and then using the above code and it still does not work.

Anyone has an idea what wrong am I doing ? or is theres a bug in the code.

Note :
1. I have also tried removing the error reporting and display errors code, no success.
2. I have tried to use the 5.3.0 version also but have the same results.

[Weedpacket]

The code given is fine (phar.readonly setting in php.ini notwithstanding, but that's not the issue here).

Could you clarify something for me? The "php5.3.1" you have in your code samples - is that the name of the php executable, a symlink, or is it merely part of the command-line prompt? In other words, are you running "create.php" and "myphar.phar" as shell scripts or are you running php and passing the script names as command-line arguments?

If the former, try the latter.

As for the precise nature of the garbage: that would be the archive data itself (since you're not specifying any compression, a copy of index.php should be visible at the end of the myphar.phar if you were to view its contents). Having a look at that would at least indicate if the .phar creation was successful.

[jatin]

Thanks for the reply Weedpacket

->>>
The "php5.3.1" you have in your code samples - is that the name of the php executable, a symlink, or is it merely part of the command-line prompt? In other words, are you running "create.php" and "myphar.phar" as shell scripts
or are you running php and passing the script names as command-line arguments?
<<--
- Thats the name of the actual php 5.3.1 executable. i.e running php and passing the script names as command-line arguments
- I have even tried executing it directly, both ways no success same garbage output.
- If I create a phar on linux and put the same on windows execute either by command line php or through webserver it works as expected.
- If someone's on mac, can you please update if that works on a mac ?

[phpfan_kro]

I have the same problems
on OpenSuse 11.2, xampp 1.7., php 5.3., Hardware 64-bit

[viliusz]

Same behavior on Mac (PHP 5.3.2, compiled)