Note:
This method requires the php.ini setting phar.readonly to be set to 0 in order to work for Phar objects. Otherwise, a PharException will be thrown.
Phar::setMetadata() should be used to store customized data that describes something about the phar archive as a complete entity. PharFileInfo::setMetadata() should be used for file-specific meta-data. Meta-data can slow down the performance of loading a phar archive if the data is large.
Some possible uses for meta-data include specifying which file within the archive should be used to bootstrap the archive, or the location of a file manifest like » PEAR's package.xml file. However, any useful data that describes the phar archive may be stored.
Any PHP variable containing information to store that describes the phar archive
No value is returned.
<?php // make sure it doesn't exist @unlink('brandnewphar.phar'); try { $p = new Phar(dirname(__FILE__) . '/brandnewphar.phar', 0, 'brandnewphar.phar'); $p['file.php'] = '<?php echo "hello"'; $p->setMetadata(array('bootstrap' => 'file.php')); var_dump($p->getMetadata()); } catch (Exception $e) { echo 'Could not create and/or modify phar:', $e; } ?>
The above example will output:
array(1) { ["bootstrap"]=> string(8) "file.php" }
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