phar-composer

Simple phar creation for every PHP project managed via Composer。
Simple phar creation for any project managed via composer.

It takes your existing project's composer.json and builds an executable phar for your project among with its bundled dependencies.

• Create a single executable phar archive, including its dependencies (i.e. vendor directory included)
• Automated build process
• Zero additional configuration

Table of contents

• Usage
  • phar-composer
  • phar-composer build
  • phar-composer install
  • phar-composer search
• Install
  • As a phar (recommended)
    • Updating phar
  • Installation using Composer
    • Updating dependency
  • Manual Installation from Source
    • Updating manually

Usage

Once clue/phar-composer is installed, you can use it via command line like this.

phar-composer

This tool supports several sub-commands. To get you started, you can now use the following simple command:

$ phar-composer

This will actually execute the search command that allows you to interactively search and build any package listed on packagist (see below description of the search command for more details).

phar-composer build

The build command can be used to build an executable single-file phar (php archive) for any project managed by composer:

$ phar-composer build ~/path/to/your/project

The second argument can be pretty much everything that can be resolved to a valid project managed by composer. Besides creating phar archives for locally installed packages like above, you can also easily download and bundle packages from packagist.org like this:

$ phar-composer build d11wtq/boris

The above will download and install the latest stable tagged release (if any). You can also specify a tagged version like this:

$ phar-composer build clue/phar-composer:~1.0

Or you can specify to install the head of a given branch like this:

$ phar-composer build clue/phar-composer:dev-master

A similar syntax can be used to clone a package from any git URL. This is particularly useful for private packages or temporary git clones not otherwise listed on packagist:

$ phar-composer build https://github.com/composer/composer.git

The above will clone the repository and check out the default branch. Again, you can specify either a tag or branch name very similar to how composer works:

$ phar-composer build https://github.com/composer/composer.git:dev-master

phar-composer install

The install command will both build the given package and then install it into the system-wide bin directory /usr/local/bin (usually already in your $PATH). This works for any package name or URL just like with the build command, e.g.:

$ phar-composer install phpunit/phpunit

After some (lengthy) build output, you should now be able to run it by just issuing:

$ phpunit

In essence, the install command will basically just issue a build and then sudo mv $target.phar /usr/local/bin/$target. It will ask you for your sudo password when necessary, so it's not needed (and in fact not recommended) to run the whole comamnd via sudo.

phar-composer search

The search command provides an interactive command line search. It will ask for the package name and issue an search via packagist.org's API and present a list of matching packages. So if you don't know the exact package name, you can use the following command:

$ phar-composer search boris

It uses an interactive command line menu to ask you for the matching package name, its version and will then offer you to either build or install it.

Install

You can grab a copy of clue/phar-composer in either of the following ways.

As a phar (recommended)

You can simply download a pre-compiled and ready-to-use version as a Phar to any directory. Simply download the latest phar-composer.phar file from our releases page:
Latest release
That's it already. You can now verify everything works by running this:

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ php phar-composer.phar --version

The above usage examples assume you've installed phar-composer system-wide to your $PATH (recommended), so you have the following options:

1. Only use phar-composer locally and adjust the usage examples: So instead of running $ phar-composer --version, you have to type $ php phar-composer.phar --version.
2. Use phar-composer's install command to install itself to your $PATH by running:
   

   $ php phar-composer.phar install clue/phar-composer

3. Or you can manually make the phar-composer.phar executable and move it to your $PATH by running:
   

   $ chmod 755 phar-composer.phar
   $ sudo mv phar-composer.phar /usr/local/bin/phar-composer

If you have installed phar-composer system-wide, you can now verify everything works by running:

$ phar-composer --version

Updating phar

There's no separate update procedure, simply download the latest release again and overwrite the existing phar.
Again, if you have already installed phar-composer system-wide, this is as easy as running a self-installation like this:

$ phar-composer install clue/phar-composer

Installation using Composer

Alternatively, you can also install phar-composer as part of your development dependencies. You will likely want to use the require-dev section to exclude phar-composer in your production environment.
You can either modify your composer.json manually or run the following command to include the latest tagged release:

$ composer require --dev clue/phar-composer

Now you should be able to invoke the following command in your project root:

$ ./vendor/bin/phar-composer --version

Note: You should only invoke and rely on the main phar-composer bin file. Installing this project as a non-dev dependency in order to use its source code as a library is not supported.

Updating dependency

Just run composer update clue/phar-composer to update to the latest release.

Manual Installation from Source

This project requires PHP 5.3+ and Composer:

$ git clone https://github.com/clue/phar-composer.git
$ cd phar-composer
$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ php composer.phar install

You can now verify everything works by running phar-composer like this:

$ php bin/phar-composer --version

Optionally, you can now build the above mentioned phar-composer.phar yourself by issuing:

$ php bin/phar-composer build

Optionally, you can now follow the above instructions for a system-wide installation.

Updating manually

$ git pull
$ php composer.phar install

from https://github.com/clue/phar-composer