**PHPackman** (pronounce pacman) is a very simpe library for packaging a PHP application into a single self-extracting PHP file.

The generated archives are PHP files that contains multiple files (compressed or juste base64-encoded) and the code required for rebuilding the hierarchy of files.\\
The archive is perfectly autonomous, the PHPackman library is only required to build the archive.

Note: Compression requires the ZipArchive class [[http://php.net/ziparchive|ZipArchive class]] (PHP 5 >= 5.2.0).

<code>
// prepare a compressed archive which will be deployed into a folder called "output_folder"
// at the end of the extraction, the browser will be redirected to "after_install.php"
$phpackman = phpackman_create('output_folder', true, 'after_install.php', '0777');

// add files and folders
phpackman_add_file($phpackman, 'aFile');
phpackman_add_file($phpackman, 'aFile', 'aVirtualFolder/aFile');
phpackman_add_folder($phpackman, 'aFolder');
phpackman_add_folder($phpackman, 'aFolder', 'anotherVirtualFolder');

// build the archive and write the content into "archive_name.pack.php"
phpackman_build($phpackman, 'archive_name.pack.php');
</code>
Note: For OOP addicts, a wrapper is provided with the library. See the source code for more information.

The source code is available on BitBucket under the licence [[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)]] : https://bitbucket.org/bbillet/phpackman