<!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>Construct a tar/zip archive from the files within a directory</title>
</head>
<body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="phardata.addfromstring.html">PharData::addFromString</a></div>
<div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="phardata.buildfromiterator.html">PharData::buildFromIterator</a></div>
<div class="up"><a href="class.phardata.html">PharData</a></div>
<div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div>
</div><hr /><div id="phardata.buildfromdirectory" class="refentry">
<div class="refnamediv">
<h1 class="refname">PharData::buildFromDirectory</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL phar >= 2.0.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">PharData::buildFromDirectory</span> — <span class="dc-title">Construct a tar/zip archive from the files within a directory</span></p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-phardata.buildfromdirectory-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="phar.buildfromdirectory.html" class="methodname">Phar::buildFromDirectory</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$base_dir</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$regex</code></span>
] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Populate a tar/zip 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 <span class="function"><a href="phardata.buildfromiterator.html" class="function">PharData::buildFromIterator()</a></span>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-phardata.buildfromdirectory-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<code class="parameter">base_dir</code></dt>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The full or relative path to the directory that contains all files
to add to the archive.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<code class="parameter">regex</code></dt>
<dd>
<p class="para">
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.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-phardata.buildfromdirectory-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
<span class="function"><a href="phar.buildfromdirectory.html" class="function">Phar::buildFromDirectory()</a></span> returns an associative array
mapping internal path of file to the full path of the file on the
filesystem.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-phardata.buildfromdirectory-errors">
<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
<p class="para">
This method throws <a href="class.badmethodcallexception.html" class="classname">BadMethodCallException</a> when unable
to instantiate the internal directory iterators,
or a <a href="class.pharexception.html" class="classname">PharException</a> if there were errors
saving the phar archive.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-phardata.buildfromdirectory-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<div class="example" id="example-792">
<p><strong>Example #1 A <span class="function"><strong>PharData::buildFromDirectory()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
<div class="example-contents"><p>
</p></div>
<div class="example-contents"><p>
<div class="example-contents">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$phar </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">PharData</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'project.tar'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// add all files in the project<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$phar</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">buildFromDirectory</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">dirname</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">__FILE__</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'/project'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$phar2 </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">PharData</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'project2.zip'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// add all files in the project, only include php files<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$phar2</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">buildFromDirectory</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">dirname</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">__FILE__</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'/project'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'/\.php$/'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
</div>
</p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-phardata.buildfromdirectory-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="phar.buildfromdirectory.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">Phar::buildFromDirectory()</a> - Construct a phar archive from the files within a directory</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="phardata.buildfromiterator.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">PharData::buildFromIterator()</a> - Construct a tar or zip archive from an iterator</span></li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="phardata.addfromstring.html">PharData::addFromString</a></div>
<div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="phardata.buildfromiterator.html">PharData::buildFromIterator</a></div>
<div class="up"><a href="class.phardata.html">PharData</a></div>
<div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div>
</div></body></html>
