How to create phar file on Mac?

Question

I want to package my folder into a phar file

phar pack -f result.phar /Users/me/FolderToPack/

But on OSX the following error is returned - Creation of phar files is disabled via ini setting 'phar.readonly'.

I tried changing the value of phar.readonly using the following code:

php -r "ini_set('phar.readonly',0);print(ini_get('phar.readonly'));"

But it doesn't work (the value of phar.readonly is still equal to 1). The PHP documentation says that changing this value is not allowed in the ini file.

Besides installing additional libraries/programs, is there anything else I can do to create phar files on Mac?

Answer 1

On macOS, the ability to create Phar files may be disabled due to security concerns. Changing the phar.readonly value using ini_set will have no effect because it is a PHP_INI_SYSTEM type configuration, meaning it can only be set in the php.ini file, or using other configuration methods such as .htaccess (if you are using PHP as an Apache module) .

Since you mentioned that you don't want to install additional libraries or programs, there is still a way to create a Phar file without modifying system-wide settings or installing anything extra. You can temporarily override the phar.readonly setting using the -d option when running the php command. Here's how to do it:

php -d phar.readonly=0 /path/to/phar pack -f result.phar /Users/me/FolderToPack/