Phar::buildFromDirectory

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL phar >= 2.0.0)

Phar::buildFromDirectory — Construct a phar archive from the files within a directory

Description

public Phar::buildFromDirectory(string $directory, string $pattern = ""): array

Note:
This method requires the php.ini setting phar.readonly to be set to 0 in order to work for Phar objects. Otherwise, a PharException will be thrown.

Populate a phar archive from directory contents. The optional second parameter is a regular expression (pcre) that is used to exclude files. Any filename that matches the regular expression will be included, all others will be excluded. For more fine-grained control, use Phar::buildFromIterator().

Parameters

directory: The full or relative path to the directory that contains all files to add to the archive.
pattern: An optional pcre regular expression that is used to filter the list of files. Only file paths matching the regular expression will be included in the archive.

Return Values

Phar::buildFromDirectory() returns an associative array mapping internal path of file to the full path of the file on the filesystem.

Errors/Exceptions

This method throws BadMethodCallException when unable to instantiate the internal directory iterators, or a PharException if there were errors saving the phar archive.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.1.0	Phar::buildFromDirectory() no longer returns `false`.

Examples

Example #1 A Phar::buildFromDirectory() example

<?php
// create with alias "project.phar"
$phar = new Phar('project.phar', 0, 'project.phar');
// add all files in the project
$phar->buildFromDirectory(dirname(__FILE__) . '/project');
$phar->setStub($phar->createDefaultStub('cli/index.php', 'www/index.php'));

$phar2 = new Phar('project2.phar', 0, 'project2.phar');
// add all files in the project, only include php files
$phar2->buildFromDirectory(dirname(__FILE__) . '/project', '/\.php$/');
$phar2->setStub($phar->createDefaultStub('cli/index.php', 'www/index.php'));
?>

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dalfarra at codref dot com ¶

7 years ago

If you want to exclude a directory from the archive (but include all the other content), the regular expression must take into consideration the whole path of the file, not just the file or directory name relative to the source folder.

As an example, if we want to exclude "nbproject" directory from the archive (and any occurrence of it):

/tmp/myfolder
  /nbproject
  /something
  /something-else
    /nbproject
  /file1.php
  /file2.php

the regex should be:
<?php
  $exclude = '/^(?!(.*nbproject))(.*)$/i';  //ignoring the case
?>

A more complete example:
<?php
    $archive_file = 'myarchive.tar';
    $folder_to_compress = '/tmp/myfolder';
    $archive = new PharData($archive_file);
    $exclude = '/^(?!(.*nbproject))(.*)$/i';  
    $archive->buildFromDirectory($folder_to_compress,$exclude);
    $archive->compress(Phar::GZ);
    unlink($archive_file); // as we already obtained a tar.gz
?>

the archive will contain:
/
  /something
  /something-else
  /file1.php
  /file2.php