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[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) 4. / 5. phar-io/phive ActiveLibrary[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) phar-io/phive ============= The Phar Installation and Verification Environment. 0.16.0(1y ago)61210.4k↓50%46[43 issues](https://github.com/phar-io/phive/issues)[8 PRs](https://github.com/phar-io/phive/pulls)1BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP ^8.0CI passing Since Sep 23Pushed 5mo ago9 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/phar-io/phive)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/phar-io/phive)[ GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/theseer)[ RSS](/packages/phar-io-phive/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (10)Dependencies (5)Versions (45)Used By (1) The Phar Installation and Verification Environment (PHIVE) ---------------------------------------------------------- [](#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 ------------- [](#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: ``` 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 -------- [](#homebrew) If you have Homebrew you can easily install it with: ``` brew install phive ``` Getting started --------------- [](#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 ------------- [](#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 ------------ [](#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 ------------ [](#contributing) PHIVE and phar.io are open source projects released under the BSD license. You are welcome to join the development team! ### Health Score 55 — FairBetter than 98% of packages Maintenance59 Moderate activity, may be stable Popularity46 Moderate usage in the ecosystem Community32 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity71 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 53.4% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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