&reftitle.setup;
&reftitle.required;

You may optionally wish to enable the zlib and bzip2 extensions to take advantage of compressed phar support. In addition, to take advantage of OpenSSL signing, the OpenSSL extension must be enabled.

If zend.multibyte is enabled, zend.detect_unicode must be enabled as well.

&reference.phar.installation; &reference.phar.ini;
&reftitle.resources;

The Phar extension provides the `phar` stream, which allows accessing files contained within a phar transparently. See also the description of the Phar file format.