<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Requirements</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="phar.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="phar.installation.html">Installation</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="phar.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="phar.requirements" class="section"> <h2 class="title">Requirements</h2> <p class="para"> Phar requires PHP 5.2.0 or newer. Additional features require the <a href="book.spl.html" class="link">SPL</a> extension in order to take advantage of iteration and array access to a Phar's file contents. The <em>phar</em> stream does not require any additional extensions to function. </p> <p class="para"> You may optionally wish to enable the <a href="book.zlib.html" class="link">zlib</a> and <a href="book.bzip2.html" class="link">bzip2</a> extensions to take advantage of compressed phar support. In addition, to take advantage of OpenSSL signing, the <a href="book.openssl.html" class="link">OpenSSL</a> extension must be enabled. </p> <p class="para"> Note that a bug in the <a href="filters.compression.html" class="link">zlib.deflate</a> stream filter fixed in PHP version 5.2.6 and newer may cause truncation of gzip and bzip2-compressed phar archives. </p> <p class="para"> PHP 5.3 configured with <em>--enable-zend-multibyte</em> makes <a href="book.phar.html" class="link">phar</a> dependant on the ini option <em>detect_unicode</em>. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="phar.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="phar.installation.html">Installation</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="phar.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
