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The Phar Installation and Verification Environment (PHIVE)
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The Phar Installation and Verification Environment (PHIVE)

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## The Phar Installation and Verification Environment (PHIVE)



Installation and verification of [phar](http://php.net/phar) distributed PHP applications has never been this easy!



[![Integrate](https://github.com/phar-io/phive/actions/workflows/integrate.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/phar-io/phive/actions/workflows/integrate.yaml)



Adding all the required tools like PHPUnit, PHPMD and phpDox in their matching versions to a project used to be a lot of

repetitive work: Started by finding the download URL, figuring out what the actually correct and matching version is

followed by verifying the sha1 and gpg signatures and making the archive executable. And of course you'd have to repeat

this very thing for every tool needed.



Alternatively, you could have used composer. And cluttered your project's dependencies with the ones of your

tools. And fight their potential dependency conflicts.



No more! Now you can rely on PHIVE to install and manage your project's tooling needs without all the hassle and without

cluttered dependencies!



## Getting PHIVE



Installation of PHIVE is easy and about the last time you have to do anything phar related manually.

Grab your copy of PHIVE from the [releases](https://github.com/phar-io/phive/releases) section at our GitHub page or

follow these simple steps:



```bash

wget -O phive.phar "https://phar.io/releases/phive.phar"

wget -O phive.phar.asc "https://phar.io/releases/phive.phar.asc"

gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 0x6AF725270AB81E04D79442549D8A98B29B2D5D79

gpg --verify phive.phar.asc phive.phar

rm phive.phar.asc

chmod +x phive.phar

mv phive.phar /usr/local/bin/phive

```



## Homebrew



If you have Homebrew you can easily install it with:

```bash

brew install phive

```



## Getting started



`phive` expects a command to be specified to run. To get a list of available commands and their

respective options, you can can run `phive` either with `--help`, `help` or without any additional

parameters. To give you a general idea on how to use it, have a look at the following sample usages.



## Sample Usages



Once installed, PHIVE is ready for action. Some example invocations are shown below:



    phive install phpunit

    phive install --copy phpdox

    phive install phpdox bin/phpdox

    phive install https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit-4.8.6.phar

    phive install --temporary phpunit@~5.0



    phive update

    phive update --prefer-offline

    phive update phpunit



## How it works



PHIVE makes installation easy by downloading the phar archive from the given location, including the verification of

the certificate supplied by the server. Once downloaded, the archive's SHA1/SHA256/SHA512 hash is verified and so its

OpenPGP/GnuPG or OpenSSL signature.



Instead of redownloading the same phar multiple times, the archive is kept at a shared location (by default in `~/.phive`)

and only a symbolic link is created for the project. You can of course also explicitly request a copy of the phar to

be made in favor of symbolic links (use `--copy`).



## Contributing



PHIVE and phar.io are open source projects released under the BSD license. You are welcome to join the development

team!