<?php
try {
$p = new Phar('/path/to/my.phar', CURRENT_AS_FILEINFO | KEY_AS_FILENAME,
'my.phar');
} catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
die('Could not open my.phar');
} catch (BadMethodCallException $e) {
echo 'technically, this cannot happen';
}
// this works now
echo file_get_contents('phar://my.phar/example.txt');
// and works as if we had typed
echo file_get_contents('phar:///path/to/my.phar/example.txt');
?>