Dear Reader,

In reading over the chat room log for my recent webcast, Zend Framework: Piece by Piece I noticed a question from my buddy Elazar about Zend_Cache_Frontend_Class. Thinking I had made a mistake, I reviewed the materials and the Zend_Cache_Frontend_Class documentation page so that I could do a quick update. The answer wasn’t nearly as simple as I thought.
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Dear Reader,

Ok, after I posted my original post on packaging the Zend Framework with Phar and my package.php, I had some additional thoughts. Also, reader John Douglass sent in some code to include. John, I’ve included most of your concepts but I changed up a lot of your code. Nothing personal but since we are using PHP 5.3, we might as well use the GetOpt() function.

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Dear Reader,

In preparation of an episode of boxlunchtraining.com I have been doing a lot of research into creating and using PHP’s new phar archives. While I’ve not answered all my questions yet, I’ve been able to do most of what I wanted. One of the tasks I wanted to complete was to create a phar archive for Zend Framework. Here is a very quick intro into how I did it. Most of this is just a reminder for me but if you find it useful then I’m glad.

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Dear Reader,

The Short Version

If you are installing PHP 5.3 and when you run go-pear.bat you get this:

phar "C:\xampp\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar" does not have a signature

Edit your php.ini file and find the lines:

; http://php.net/phar.require-hash
; phar.require_hash = On

Change them to :

; http://php.net/phar.require-hash
phar.require_hash = Off

Save and then run

go-pear

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