realpath() and SplFileInfo::getRealPath inside Phar
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I'm trying to include packages in my phar but many of them use realpath to files inside the Phar which spits out false instead of a path; breaking things. If the behavior was to return the same path when the path starts with phar:// it would just work.
The following code:
make_phar.php
<?php
$phar = new Phar('test.phar');
$phar->addFile('test.php');
$phar->setDefaultStub('test.php');
$phar->stopBuffering();
test.php
<?php
var_dump(
__FILE__,
realpath(__FILE__),
(new SplFileInfo(__FILE__))->getRealPath(),
);
php test.php && php make_phar.php && php test.phar
Resulted in this output:
string(45) "/home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.php"
string(45) "/home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.php"
string(45) "/home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.php"
string(62) "phar:///home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.phar/test.php"
bool(false)
bool(false)
But I expected this output instead:
string(45) "/home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.php"
string(45) "/home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.php"
string(45) "/home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.php"
string(62) "phar:///home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.phar/test.php"
string(62) "phar:///home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.phar/test.php"
string(62) "phar:///home/murrant/projects/realpath_test/test.phar/test.php"
PHP Version
PHP 8.3.7
Operating System
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Research direction
Start by running make_phar.php, test.php, and the provided php test.phar command to reproduce the false results for realpath() and SplFileInfo::getRealPath(). Trace the PHP and Phar filesystem handling involved in those calls. Done means both functions return the phar:// path shown in the expected output, with the existing non-Phar results unchanged.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100