What makes a phar a phar and not a tar or a zip?

Table of Contents

• Ingredients of all Phar archives, independent of file format
• Phar file stub
• Head-to-head comparison of Phar, Tar and Zip
• Tar-based phars
• Zip-based phars
• Phar File Format
• Global Phar bitmapped flags
• Phar manifest file entry definition
• Phar Signature format