Rar installation

Setup

Install

Rar is currently available through PECL Packagerar.

Also you can use the PECL installer to install the Rar extension, using the following command: pecl -v install rar.

You can always download the tar.gz package and install Rar by hand:

Rar installation

gunzip rar-xxx.tgz
tar -xvf rar-xxx.tar
cd rar-xxx
phpize
./configure && make && make install

Windows users will enable php_rar.dll inside of Ini in order to use these functions.

Resources

This extension registers three internal classes: the archive representations returned by rar_open() – RarArchive, the entry representations returned by rar_list() and rar_entry_get() – RarEntry and the exception type RarException.

This extension also register a stream resource, called "rar" and a URL wrapper called "rar wrapper" and registered under the prefix "rar".