Re: Re: PHP_Archive Last call for comments before vote!

Alan Knowles wrote:

I think the tool you're looking for is called "pear." Avoid re-inventing the wheel here. If there is a shortcoming in PEAR, then you need to address that shortcoming. Take a peek at 1.4.0 now that I've dived into unit testing. Specifically these things will be very useful:

PEAR_PackageFile_v*->getFileContents() used to retrieve the contents of a file from the .tgz or .tar based on its name in the package.xml (should remove the profanity from non-working compression :)

the ability to define custom roles. Simply define a bootstrap role, and you can define the start script with

<file role="bootstrap" name="whatever.php"/> This will also be good because you'll be able to take existing pear packages and create .phars from them with minimal changes.

This does sound alot cleaner, Although I do wonder how includes work from within the archive?

[phar::somefile.tgz] ...abc.php.. -> "include '/def/xyz.php'; ...def/xyz.php unless you are adding phar::somfile.tgz to the include path?? - in which case does include path accept transport types..

Regards Alan

in a PHAR file, you access other files in the same archive (only! You can include files not in archives though) using phar://the/path/to/the/file.php This is the beauty of streams :D - Davey