selective/rar

RAR file reader

0.5.0 2025-06-15 15:03 UTC

Requires

• php: 8.1.* || 8.2.* || 8.3.* || 8.4.*

Requires (Dev)

• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3
• phpstan/phpstan: ^1 || ^2
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^3

MIT

• file
• reader
• archive
• rar

README

RAR file reader for PHP.

Features

• Read RAR file information
• RAR 5 archive format
• RAR 4 archive format
• No dependencies
• Very fast

Note: This package does not support extracting / unpacking rar archives.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 - 8.4

The PECL RAR package is NOT required

Installation

composer require selective/rar

Usage

Open RAR file

use Selective\Rar\RarFileReader;
use SplFileObject;

$rarFileReader = new RarFileReader();
$rarArchive = $rarFileReader->openFile(new SplFileObject('test.rar'));

foreach ($rarArchive->getEntries() as $entry) {
    echo $entry->getName() . "\n";
}

Open in-memory RAR file

use Selective\Rar\RarFileReader;
use SplTempFileObject;

$file = new SplTempFileObject();
$file->fwrite('my binary rar content');

$rarFileReader = new RarFileReader();
$rarArchive = $rarFileReader->openFile($file);

foreach ($rarArchive->getEntries() as $entry) {
    echo $entry->getName() . "\n";
}

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.