What is the scope of PHARs

Question

I am building a web application that will accept 3rd party code to be deployed. I was wondering (and a few searches in Google didn't show anything).

On what scope does a PHAR archive run? Does it have application access or it is contained inside the scope of the archive?

As an explaining example: If I have in Application a config file (for simplicity's sake) will the PHAR be able to reach it?

Is there a way to share objects between PHAR and the Application code? Like using a singleton or something similar.

Answer 1

There are no special restrictions of files in phars, compared to "normal" files on the harddisk.

You can include and access files outside the phar without problems.

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Your application will behave as before as long as you have the include path/autoloader setup correctly.