Just to further add to this:

var_dump($configDir, is_dir($configDir), is_readable($configDir), realpath($configDir), scandir($configDir));

string(8) "./config"
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(false)
bool(false)

Needless to say, I am not very excited about these issues.

The really effed up part is that include  "phar:///path/to/archive.phar/folder/file.php" will not work, but is_file( "phar:///path/to/archive.phar/folder/file.php") works just fine.  Can we pick a method for resolving files in a phar archive across all file functions?  There is really no way to get phar to do anything useful beyond using "./" as a path.  After 20 years of PHP it is really time to move on to something mature.

Also broken, include path ".";

For example:

lets say the php path is "." and in my pwd, folder exists file with file.php.

include "folder/file.php"; // works as expected.

include "./folder/file.php"; // shits it's pants.

Not sure we could screw up path handling any more than it is.

Now I am randomly getting "unable to create temporary file"

WHAT THE EF!  I am done with this.  go back and rewrite it with a brain.  PS this captcha is bullshit.

I will update as I discover more issues, example code is available in the same repo.

https://github.com/kwhat/dumpsterfire-phar/blob/master/index.md
https://github.com/kwhat/dumpsterfire-phar/blob/master/phar.md

> Also broken, include path ".";
> 
> For example:
>
> lets say the php path is "." and in my pwd, folder exists file with file.php.>
>
> include "folder/file.php"; // works as expected.
>
> include "./folder/file.php"; // shits it's pants.
>
> Not sure we could screw up path handling any more than it is.

It's really hard to tell from these ramblings, but if I understand correctly, you are talking about plain files here, not phars, right?

In that case, you do realize that those two paths refer to different things? "./folder/file.php" is relative to the current working directory, while "folder/file.php" is relative to the include_path and the including script as a fallback.

My immediate suspicion would be that are are confusing the "current working directory" and the "directory of the including script". Both paths will work against the cwd (if "." is in the include path), but only the first path against the directory of the current script.

I recommend using __DIR__ relative paths to avoid this kind of confusion.

The https://github.com/kwhat/dumpsterfire-phar/blob/master/index.md file is run using the arguments specified using index.php as the entry point and public/ as the document root/cwd.  This is the baseline for how I would expect stuff to work, everything is normal except for glob() a phar:// path.  The glob maybe broken for other reasons and it is really the smallest of these issues.

When we look at https://github.com/kwhat/dumpsterfire-phar/blob/master/phar.md we can see what didn't match up to our index.md baseline.  Glob experiences a number of new failures for the relative paths, which are expected.

 * "../config/": For some reason this is found while using the phar... I don't believe it should have been.
 * phar.readonly: This is empty string, it is specified in the cli ini as phar.readonly = Off.  According to the docs, this should come from the ini but can only be set with -d.
 * is_writeable: This doesn't appear to work when using phar.
 * include "./config/" vs "config/" This makes some sense, except for is_dir/is_file "./config/" returning true when within the phar.

If we take a look at https://github.com/kwhat/dumpsterfire-phar/blob/master/create-phar.php:

 * @unlink('/tmp/archive.phar'): Sometimes phar archive updating will cause a failure depending on the change.
 * $phar->compressFiles(Phar::GZ): Causes failure to create temp file error when compressing phar of any meaningful size.
 * $phar->buildFromIterator does not update the $phar objects contents. Start/Stop buffering has no effect.  The only workaround I found was `$phar = new Phar($phar->getPath())`

Try defining the full path.

$path = '.';
if (!empty($pharPath = \Phar::running(false))) {
    $path = dirname($pharPath);
} 

$this->fileSystem->dumpFile(
    $path.'/testfile.txt',
    'my test content'
);

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