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<refentry id="function.Phar-construct">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>Phar::__construct</refname>
  <refpurpose>Construct a Phar archive object</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>void</type><methodname>Phar::__construct</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>fname</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>flags</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>alias</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>

 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>fname</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Path to an existing Phar archive, or if the
       <link linkend="ini.phar.readonly">phar.readonly</link> INI
       variable is set to &quot;0&quot;, 
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>flags</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       flags to pass to parent class <classname>RecursiveDirectoryIterator</classname>.
       See <ulink url="http://www.php.net/~helly/php/ext/spl/classRecursiveDirectoryIterator.html#be0e1176d512c66500e5c26f248c89c4">SPL RecursiveDirectoryIterator docs</ulink>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>alias</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Alias with which this Phar archive should be referred to in calls to stream
       functionality.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="errors">
  &reftitle.errors;
  <para>
   Throws BadMethodCallException if called twice, UnexpectedValueException
   if the phar archive can't be opened.
  </para>
 </refsect1>


 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>A <function>Phar::__construct</function> example</title>
     <para>
      <programlisting role="php">
       <![CDATA[
<?php
try {
    $p = new Phar('/path/to/my.phar', CURRENT_AS_FILEINFO | KEY_AS_FILENAME,
                  'my.phar');
} catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
    die('Could not open my.phar');
} catch (BadMethodCallException $e) {
    echo 'technically, this cannot happen';
}
// this works now
echo file_get_contents('phar://my.phar/example.txt');
// and works as if we had typed
echo file_get_contents('phar:///path/to/my.phar/example.txt');
?>
      ]]>
     </programlisting>
    </para>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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