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Goal

The Box application simplifies the PHAR building process. Out of the box (no pun intended), the application can do many great things:

  • ⚡ Fast application bundling
  • 🔨 PHAR isolation
  • ⚙️ Zero configuration by default
  • 🚔 Requirements checker
  • 🚨 Friendly error logging experience
  • 🔍 Retrieve information about the PHAR extension or a PHAR file and its contents (box info or box diff)
  • 🔐️ Verify the signature of an existing PHAR (box verify)
  • 📝 Use Git tags and short commit hashes for versioning
  • 🕵️️ Get recommendations and warnings about regarding your configuration (box validate)
  • 🐳 Docker support (box docker)

Docs

Go do the documentation.

Usage

Creating a PHAR should be as simple as running box compile (no config required!). It will however assume some defaults that you might want to change. Box will by default be looking in order for the files box.json and box.json.dist in the current working directory. A basic configuration could be for example changing the PHAR permissions:

{
    "chmod": "0700"
}

You can then find more advanced configuration settings in the configuration documentation. For more information on which command or options is available, you can run:

box help

Contributing

The project provides a Makefile in which the most common commands have been registered such as fixing the coding style or running the test.

make

Backward Compatibility Promise (BCP)

The policy is for the major part following the same as Symfony's one. Note that the code marked as @private or @internal are excluded from the BCP.

The text displayed by the commands (e.g. compile or info) or the content of the error/exception messages are also not subject to the BCP.

Credits

Project originally created by: Kevin Herrera (@kherge) which has now been moved under the Humbug umbrella.