cataphract / rar

v4.3.1 2026-03-15 00:49 UTC

Requires

• php: ^7.0 || ^8.0

Replaces

• ext-rar: *

PHP-3.01

• Gustavo Lopes
• Antony Dovgal

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-03-15 00:50 UTC

Extension name: ext-rar

Supports Zend Thread Safety (ZTS): ✅

Supports non-Thread Safe mode (NTS): ✅

Supported operating systems: no restrictions

README

PHP extension for reading RAR archives using the bundled UnRAR library.

This extension uses a modified version of the UnRAR library. The UnRAR library is an official open-source library by RARLabs, an auto generated subset of the RAR codebase. It is available from http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm Please note that it has a more restrictive license than the PHP bindings, barring using it to re-create the RAR compression algorithm. See unrar/LICENSE.txt for details.

Some modifications have been applied to the UnRAR library, mainly to allow streaming extraction of files without using threads.

Installation

With PECL

To install a specific version directly from GitHub, use the .tgz release asset — not the auto-generated tag archive, which has an incompatible directory structure:

pecl install https://github.com/cataphract/php-rar/releases/download/v4.3.1/rar-4.3.1.tgz

Then add extension=rar to your php.ini.

With PIE

PIE is the modern replacement for PECL, available from PHP 8.1+.

pie install rar

PIE automatically adds the extension to your php.ini.