Features

shared.phar is a streets ahead PHP autoloader.

• Self-contained in a single compressed Phar ⎘ (but may also be split up).
• Can be updated easily by invoking it from the command line, or implicitly.
• Based on a class map, interprets identifiers case-insensitively (as PHP does).
• Prepares rfc:function_autoloading userland support.
• Phar collections become first class citizens, as both plain *.php scripts and phar://* includes are tokenized for identifier declarations.
• Indifferent to PSR-0/4 constraints, works atop any legacy or custom directory scheme.
• Is meant for /usr/share/php handling, but can be used project-locally just as well.
• And for deployment is just copied along with the classpath.

Also it's public domain.

Usage

It can be utilized easily with:

 include_once("shared.phar");

And updated manually on the command line:

 php ./shared.phar

Or implicitly on development setups by declaring an AUTOLOADER_UPDATE environment variable.

Project

Development State

shared.phar is still in an early development stage.

Releases

Releases will be announced on http://freecode.com/projects/sharedphar

Packages

Debian packages are available via http://apt.include-once.org/