<!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>Zip-based phars</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="phar.fileformat.tar.html">Tar-based phars</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="phar.fileformat.phar.html">Phar File Format</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="phar.fileformat.html">What makes a phar a phar and not a tar or a zip?</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="phar.fileformat.zip" class="section"> <h2 class="title">Zip-based phars</h2> <p class="para"> Archives based on the zip file format support several features built into the zip file format. Per-file and whole-archive metadata is stored in the zip file comment and zip archive comment as a serialized string. Pre-existing zip comments will be successfully read as a string. Per-file compression read/write is supported with zlib compression, and read access is supported with bzip2 compression. There is no limit on the number of files within a zip-based phar archive. Empty directories are stored in the zip archive as files with a trailing slash like <em>my/directory/</em> </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="phar.fileformat.tar.html">Tar-based phars</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="phar.fileformat.phar.html">Phar File Format</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="phar.fileformat.html">What makes a phar a phar and not a tar or a zip?</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
