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99 lines
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Plugins in Phar Archives
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This is a short guide on how to create single-file portable plugins using
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MakePhar.
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## The workflow
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1. Your application should export functions that can be called by the plugin
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on load, such as `myapp_plugin_register` in the example below.
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2. Locate the .phar plugins to load, and `@include` them one at a time.
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3. Process the plugins etc that has been registered from the successfully
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loaded .phar libraries.
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## Example files
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### src/plugin.php
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<?php
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// Prevent standalone use, as it doesn't make sense
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if (!is_callable('myapp_plugin_register')) {
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error_log("This is a plugin for MyApp and can't be used standalone");
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exit(1);
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}
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// Register the plugin
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myapp_plugin_register(new MyPlugin\MyPlugin());
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### composer.json
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{
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"autoload": {
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"files": [ "src/plugin.php" ],
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"psr-4": { "MyPlugin\\":"src/" }
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}
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}
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### makephar.sdl
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phar "myplugin.phar" {
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library;
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include {
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dir "src";
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dir "vendor";
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}
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exclude {
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dir ".git";
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}
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}
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## Notes and Considerations
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* Try not to bundle unneccesary or duplicate dependencies using composer. It is
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possible to include multiple composer `autoload.php` files (as is done when
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including the phar libraries) but effectively only the first matching loader
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will be used. Thus, if you have required a library in the plugin that is also
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present in the main application, the main version will be loaded rather than
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the plugin version.
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## Problems and Solutions
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### Getting the directory of the running phar
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You can get the path of the command invoked using `$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']`:
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$root = dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
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Note that the script *can* be a symbolic link, in which case you need to call
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on `readlink` before you call `dirname`:
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// Get the path of the script, eg. /usr/bin/myapp
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$root = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
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// Unwrap the links, eg. /usr/bin/myapp -> ~/myapp/myapp.phar
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while (readlink($root)) {
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$root = readlink($root);
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}
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// Finally get the directory (~/myapp)
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$root = dirname($root);
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Use this to locate your plugins.
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### Find out if running from within a Phar
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You can easilly find out if running from within a .phar archive by calling
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`Phar::running()`.
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if (Phar::running()) { inside_phar(); }
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This doesn't make sense to use in phar plugins, as the main application can
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also be in a phar, in which case it will be true even for non-phar plugins.
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