A phar (PHP archive) file. The phar format is a custom archive format from the PHP ecosystem that is used to package a complete PHP library or application into a single self-contained archive. All phar archives start with an executable PHP stub, which can be used to allow executing or including phar files as if they were regular PHP scripts. PHP 5.3 and later include the phar extension, which adds native support for reading and manipulating phar files.
The phar format was originally developed as part of the PEAR library PHP_Archive, first released in 2005. Later, a native PHP extension named "phar" was developed, which was first released on PECL in 2007, and is included with PHP 5.3 and later. The phar extension has effectively superseded the PHP_Archive library, which has not been updated since 2010. The phar extension is also no longer released independently on PECL; it is now developed and released as part of PHP itself.
Because of current limitations in Kaitai Struct (seekaitai-io/kaitai_struct#158 and kaitai-io/kaitai_struct#538), the executable PHP stub that precedes the rest of the archive is not handled by this spec. Before parsing a phar using this spec, the stub must be removed manually.
A phar's stub is terminated by the special token __HALT_COMPILER();
(which may be followed by at most one space, the PHP tag end ?>,
and an optional line terminator). The stub termination sequence is
immediately followed by the remaining parts of the phar format,
as described in this spec.
The phar stub usually contains code that loads the phar and runs
a contained PHP file, but this is not required. A minimal valid phar stub
is <?php __HALT_COMPILER(); - such a stub makes it impossible to execute
the phar directly, but still allows loading or manipulating it using the
phar extension.
Note: The phar format does not specify any encoding for text fields (stub, alias name, and all file names), so these fields may contain arbitrary binary data. The actual text encoding used in a specific phar file usually depends on the application that created the phar, and on the standard encoding of the system on which the phar was created.
This page hosts a formal specification of PHP phar archive (without stub) using Kaitai Struct. This specification can be automatically translated into a variety of programming languages to get a parsing library.
All parsing code for JavaScript generated by Kaitai Struct depends on the JavaScript runtime library. You have to install it before you can parse data.
The JavaScript runtime library is available at npm:
npm install kaitai-structSee the usage examples in the JavaScript notes.
Parse structure from an ArrayBuffer:
var arrayBuffer = ...;
var data = new PharWithoutStub(new KaitaiStream(arrayBuffer));
After that, one can get various attributes from the structure by accessing fields or properties like:
data.manifest // => The archive's manifest, containing general metadata about the archive
and its files.
// This is a generated file! Please edit source .ksy file and use kaitai-struct-compiler to rebuild
(function (root, factory) {
if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
define(['kaitai-struct/KaitaiStream', './PhpSerializedValue'], factory);
} else if (typeof module === 'object' && module.exports) {
module.exports = factory(require('kaitai-struct/KaitaiStream'), require('./PhpSerializedValue'));
} else {
root.PharWithoutStub = factory(root.KaitaiStream, root.PhpSerializedValue);
}
}(typeof self !== 'undefined' ? self : this, function (KaitaiStream, PhpSerializedValue) {
/**
* A phar (PHP archive) file. The phar format is a custom archive format
* from the PHP ecosystem that is used to package a complete PHP library
* or application into a single self-contained archive.
* All phar archives start with an executable PHP stub, which can be used to
* allow executing or including phar files as if they were regular PHP scripts.
* PHP 5.3 and later include the phar extension, which adds native support for
* reading and manipulating phar files.
*
* The phar format was originally developed as part of the PEAR library
* PHP_Archive, first released in 2005. Later, a native PHP extension
* named "phar" was developed, which was first released on PECL in 2007,
* and is included with PHP 5.3 and later. The phar extension has effectively
* superseded the PHP_Archive library, which has not been updated since 2010.
* The phar extension is also no longer released independently on PECL;
* it is now developed and released as part of PHP itself.
*
* Because of current limitations in Kaitai Struct
* (seekaitai-io/kaitai_struct#158 and kaitai-io/kaitai_struct#538),
* the executable PHP stub that precedes the rest of the archive is not handled
* by this spec. Before parsing a phar using this spec, the stub must be
* removed manually.
*
* A phar's stub is terminated by the special token `__HALT_COMPILER();`
* (which may be followed by at most one space, the PHP tag end `?>`,
* and an optional line terminator). The stub termination sequence is
* immediately followed by the remaining parts of the phar format,
* as described in this spec.
*
* The phar stub usually contains code that loads the phar and runs
* a contained PHP file, but this is not required. A minimal valid phar stub
* is `<?php __HALT_COMPILER();` - such a stub makes it impossible to execute
* the phar directly, but still allows loading or manipulating it using the
* phar extension.
*
* Note: The phar format does not specify any encoding for text fields
* (stub, alias name, and all file names), so these fields may contain arbitrary
* binary data. The actual text encoding used in a specific phar file usually
* depends on the application that created the phar, and on the
* standard encoding of the system on which the phar was created.
* @see {@link https://www.php.net/manual/en/phar.fileformat.php|Source}
* @see {@link https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/ext/phar|Source}
* @see {@link https://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/phar/|Source}
* @see {@link https://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/PHP_Archive/|Source}
*/
var PharWithoutStub = (function() {
PharWithoutStub.SignatureType = Object.freeze({
MD5: 1,
SHA1: 2,
SHA256: 4,
SHA512: 8,
OPENSSL: 16,
1: "MD5",
2: "SHA1",
4: "SHA256",
8: "SHA512",
16: "OPENSSL",
});
function PharWithoutStub(_io, _parent, _root) {
this._io = _io;
this._parent = _parent;
this._root = _root || this;
this._read();
}
PharWithoutStub.prototype._read = function() {
this.manifest = new Manifest(this._io, this, this._root);
this.files = [];
for (var i = 0; i < this.manifest.numFiles; i++) {
this.files.push(this._io.readBytes(this.manifest.fileEntries[i].lenDataCompressed));
}
if (this.manifest.flags.hasSignature) {
this._raw_signature = this._io.readBytesFull();
var _io__raw_signature = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_signature);
this.signature = new Signature(_io__raw_signature, this, this._root);
}
}
var SerializedValue = PharWithoutStub.SerializedValue = (function() {
function SerializedValue(_io, _parent, _root) {
this._io = _io;
this._parent = _parent;
this._root = _root || this;
this._read();
}
SerializedValue.prototype._read = function() {
this.raw = this._io.readBytesFull();
}
/**
* The serialized value, parsed as a structure.
*/
Object.defineProperty(SerializedValue.prototype, 'parsed', {
get: function() {
if (this._m_parsed !== undefined)
return this._m_parsed;
var _pos = this._io.pos;
this._io.seek(0);
this._m_parsed = new PhpSerializedValue(this._io, this, null);
this._io.seek(_pos);
return this._m_parsed;
}
});
/**
* The serialized value, as a raw byte array.
*/
return SerializedValue;
})();
var Signature = PharWithoutStub.Signature = (function() {
function Signature(_io, _parent, _root) {
this._io = _io;
this._parent = _parent;
this._root = _root || this;
this._read();
}
Signature.prototype._read = function() {
this.data = this._io.readBytes(((this._io.size - this._io.pos) - 8));
this.type = this._io.readU4le();
this.magic = this._io.readBytes(4);
if (!((KaitaiStream.byteArrayCompare(this.magic, [71, 66, 77, 66]) == 0))) {
throw new KaitaiStream.ValidationNotEqualError([71, 66, 77, 66], this.magic, this._io, "/types/signature/seq/2");
}
}
/**
* The signature data. The size and contents depend on the
* signature type.
*/
/**
* The signature type.
*/
return Signature;
})();
var FileFlags = PharWithoutStub.FileFlags = (function() {
function FileFlags(_io, _parent, _root) {
this._io = _io;
this._parent = _parent;
this._root = _root || this;
this._read();
}
FileFlags.prototype._read = function() {
this.value = this._io.readU4le();
}
/**
* The file's permission bits.
*/
Object.defineProperty(FileFlags.prototype, 'permissions', {
get: function() {
if (this._m_permissions !== undefined)
return this._m_permissions;
this._m_permissions = (this.value & 511);
return this._m_permissions;
}
});
/**
* Whether this file's data is stored using zlib compression.
*/
Object.defineProperty(FileFlags.prototype, 'zlibCompressed', {
get: function() {
if (this._m_zlibCompressed !== undefined)
return this._m_zlibCompressed;
this._m_zlibCompressed = (this.value & 4096) != 0;
return this._m_zlibCompressed;
}
});
/**
* Whether this file's data is stored using bzip2 compression.
*/
Object.defineProperty(FileFlags.prototype, 'bzip2Compressed', {
get: function() {
if (this._m_bzip2Compressed !== undefined)
return this._m_bzip2Compressed;
this._m_bzip2Compressed = (this.value & 8192) != 0;
return this._m_bzip2Compressed;
}
});
/**
* The unparsed flag bits.
*/
return FileFlags;
})();
/**
* A phar API version number. This version number is meant to indicate
* which features are used in a specific phar, so that tools reading
* the phar can easily check that they support all necessary features.
*
* The following API versions exist so far:
*
* * 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.7.1: The first official API versions. At this point,
* the phar format was only used by the PHP_Archive library, and the
* API version numbers were identical to the PHP_Archive versions that
* supported them. Development of the native phar extension started around
* API version 0.7. These API versions could only be queried using the
* `PHP_Archive::APIversion()` method, but were not stored physically
* in archives. These API versions are not supported by this spec.
* * 0.8.0: Used by PHP_Archive 0.8.0 (released 2006-07-18) and
* later development versions of the phar extension. This is the first
* version number to be physically stored in archives. This API version
* is not supported by this spec.
* * 0.9.0: Used by later development/early beta versions of the
* phar extension. Also temporarily used by PHP_Archive 0.9.0
* (released 2006-12-15), but reverted back to API version 0.8.0 in
* PHP_Archive 0.9.1 (released 2007-01-05).
* * 1.0.0: Supported since PHP_Archive 0.10.0 (released 2007-05-29)
* and phar extension 1.0.0 (released 2007-03-28). This is the first
* stable, forwards-compatible and documented version of the format.
* * 1.1.0: Supported since PHP_Archive 0.12.0 (released 2015-07-06)
* and phar extension 1.1.0 (released 2007-04-12). Adds SHA-256 and
* SHA-512 signature types.
* * 1.1.1: Supported since phar extension 2.0.0 (released 2009-07-29 and
* included with PHP 5.3 and later). (PHP_Archive 0.12.0 also supports
* all features from API verison 1.1.1, but it reports API version 1.1.0.)
* Adds the OpenSSL signature type and support for storing
* empty directories.
*/
var ApiVersion = PharWithoutStub.ApiVersion = (function() {
function ApiVersion(_io, _parent, _root) {
this._io = _io;
this._parent = _parent;
this._root = _root || this;
this._read();
}
ApiVersion.prototype._read = function() {
this.release = this._io.readBitsIntBe(4);
this.major = this._io.readBitsIntBe(4);
this.minor = this._io.readBitsIntBe(4);
this.unused = this._io.readBitsIntBe(4);
}
return ApiVersion;
})();
var GlobalFlags = PharWithoutStub.GlobalFlags = (function() {
function GlobalFlags(_io, _parent, _root) {
this._io = _io;
this._parent = _parent;
this._root = _root || this;
this._read();
}
GlobalFlags.prototype._read = function() {
this.value = this._io.readU4le();
}
/**
* Whether any of the files in this phar are stored using
* zlib compression.
*/
Object.defineProperty(GlobalFlags.prototype, 'anyZlibCompressed', {
get: function() {
if (this._m_anyZlibCompressed !== undefined)
return this._m_anyZlibCompressed;
this._m_anyZlibCompressed = (this.value & 4096) != 0;
return this._m_anyZlibCompressed;
}
});
/**
* Whether any of the files in this phar are stored using
* bzip2 compression.
*/
Object.defineProperty(GlobalFlags.prototype, 'anyBzip2Compressed', {
get: function() {
if (this._m_anyBzip2Compressed !== undefined)
return this._m_anyBzip2Compressed;
this._m_anyBzip2Compressed = (this.value & 8192) != 0;
return this._m_anyBzip2Compressed;
}
});
/**
* Whether this phar contains a signature.
*/
Object.defineProperty(GlobalFlags.prototype, 'hasSignature', {
get: function() {
if (this._m_hasSignature !== undefined)
return this._m_hasSignature;
this._m_hasSignature = (this.value & 65536) != 0;
return this._m_hasSignature;
}
});
/**
* The unparsed flag bits.
*/
return GlobalFlags;
})();
var Manifest = PharWithoutStub.Manifest = (function() {
function Manifest(_io, _parent, _root) {
this._io = _io;
this._parent = _parent;
this._root = _root || this;
this._read();
}
Manifest.prototype._read = function() {
this.lenManifest = this._io.readU4le();
this.numFiles = this._io.readU4le();
this.apiVersion = new ApiVersion(this._io, this, this._root);
this.flags = new GlobalFlags(this._io, this, this._root);
this.lenAlias = this._io.readU4le();
this.alias = this._io.readBytes(this.lenAlias);
this.lenMetadata = this._io.readU4le();
if (this.lenMetadata != 0) {
this._raw_metadata = this._io.readBytes(this.lenMetadata);
var _io__raw_metadata = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_metadata);
this.metadata = new SerializedValue(_io__raw_metadata, this, this._root);
}
this.fileEntries = [];
for (var i = 0; i < this.numFiles; i++) {
this.fileEntries.push(new FileEntry(this._io, this, this._root));
}
}
/**
* The length of the manifest, in bytes.
*
* Note: The phar extension does not allow reading manifests
* larger than 100 MiB.
*/
/**
* The number of files in this phar.
*/
/**
* The API version used by this phar manifest.
*/
/**
* Global flags for this phar.
*/
/**
* The length of the alias, in bytes.
*/
/**
* The phar's alias, i. e. the name under which it is loaded into PHP.
*/
/**
* The size of the metadata, in bytes, or 0 if there is none.
*/
/**
* Metadata for this phar, in the format used by PHP's
* `serialize` function. The meaning of the serialized data is not
* specified further, it may be used to store arbitrary custom data
* about the archive.
*/
/**
* Manifest entries for the files contained in this phar.
*/
return Manifest;
})();
var FileEntry = PharWithoutStub.FileEntry = (function() {
function FileEntry(_io, _parent, _root) {
this._io = _io;
this._parent = _parent;
this._root = _root || this;
this._read();
}
FileEntry.prototype._read = function() {
this.lenFilename = this._io.readU4le();
this.filename = this._io.readBytes(this.lenFilename);
this.lenDataUncompressed = this._io.readU4le();
this.timestamp = this._io.readU4le();
this.lenDataCompressed = this._io.readU4le();
this.crc32 = this._io.readU4le();
this.flags = new FileFlags(this._io, this, this._root);
this.lenMetadata = this._io.readU4le();
if (this.lenMetadata != 0) {
this._raw_metadata = this._io.readBytes(this.lenMetadata);
var _io__raw_metadata = new KaitaiStream(this._raw_metadata);
this.metadata = new SerializedValue(_io__raw_metadata, this, this._root);
}
}
/**
* The length of the file name, in bytes.
*/
/**
* The name of this file. If the name ends with a slash, this entry
* represents a directory, otherwise a regular file. Directory entries
* are supported since phar API version 1.1.1.
* (Explicit directory entries are only needed for empty directories.
* Non-empty directories are implied by the files located inside them.)
*/
/**
* The length of the file's data when uncompressed, in bytes.
*/
/**
* The time at which the file was added or last updated, as a
* Unix timestamp.
*/
/**
* The length of the file's data when compressed, in bytes.
*/
/**
* The CRC32 checksum of the file's uncompressed data.
*/
/**
* Flags for this file.
*/
/**
* The length of the metadata, in bytes, or 0 if there is none.
*/
/**
* Metadata for this file, in the format used by PHP's
* `serialize` function. The meaning of the serialized data is not
* specified further, it may be used to store arbitrary custom data
* about the file.
*/
return FileEntry;
})();
/**
* The archive's manifest, containing general metadata about the archive
* and its files.
*/
/**
* The contents of each file in the archive (possibly compressed,
* as indicated by the file's flags in the manifest). The files are stored
* in the same order as they appear in the manifest.
*/
/**
* The archive's signature - a digest of all archive data before
* the signature itself.
*
* Note: Almost all of the available "signature" types are actually hashes,
* not signatures, and cannot be used to verify that the archive has not
* been tampered with. Only the OpenSSL signature type is a true
* cryptographic signature.
*/
return PharWithoutStub;
})();
return PharWithoutStub;
}));