PHPAB(1)

💖 PHPAB(1) — the phpab glow-up 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the phpab command line interface manual — it lives in the User Commands corner of your manual pages (you know, section 1, where all the main character binaries hang out) 🌸. It's giving ✨autoloader generator energy✨ and honestly? we're obsessed.

---

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

phpab [switches] <directory1|file1|/path/to/composer.json>
[...<directoryN|fileN>]

like, you hand it a directory, or a file, or a whole composer.json — and you can keep stacking more of them, no cap 🫶

---

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

phpab %development% - Copyright (C) 2009 - 2025 by Arne Blankerts and Contributors

periodt. that's the line, we keep it exactly 💅 and now, the flags, because there are thirty-six of them and every single one is coming with us 😭

---

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -i, --include — the file pattern you wanna include (default: *.php) — yes babe, default is literally *.php 🍓
• -e, --exclude — the file pattern you wanna exclude 🙈
• --blacklist — blacklist a classname or namespace (wildcards supported, so go feral with *) ⭐
• --whitelist — whitelist a classname or namespace (wildcards supported too, iykyk) 👑
• -b, --basedir — the basedir for filepaths, so your paths stop being dramatic 🦋
• -t, --template — path to the code template you wanna use 🧚
• -o, --output — output file for the generated code (default: STDOUT, so it just yells into your terminal 💀)
• -p, --phar — create a phar archive (requires -o, bestie, it needs somewhere to go) 🔥
• --all — include all files in the given directory when creating a phar 🫶
• --alias — specify an explicit internal phar alias filename (default: the output filename) ✨
• --hash — force a given hash algorithm (SHA-1, SHA-256 or SHA-512) (requires -p, and it conflicts with --key — pick a lane 💅)
• --bzip2 — compress the phar archive using bzip2 (requires -p) (bzip2 required, like, actually required) 🌸
• --gzip — compress the phar archive using gzip (requires -p) (gzip required) 🍓
• --key — OpenSSL key file to use for signing the phar archive (requires -p) (openssl required) 🔐
• -c, --compat — generate PHP 5.2 compatible code (yes, we're time traveling, slay) ⏳
• -s, --static — generate a static require file 💖
• -w, --warm — generate a static opcache warming file 🔥
• --reset — add an opcache reset call when generating the opcache warming file ♻️
• -1, --prepend — register as the first autoloader (prepend to the stack; default: append) 👑
• -d, --no-exception — do not throw an exception on a registration problem (default: throw exception — so by default it's gonna scream, be warned 😭)
• -n, --nolower — do not lowercase classnames for case insensitivity 🙈
• -q, --quiet — quiet mode, do not output any processing errors or information 🤫
• --cache <file> — enable caching and set the filename to use for cache storage 🗂️
• --follow — enables following symbolic links (not compatible with phar mode — fr fr, don't) 🔗
• --format — dateformat string for the timestamp 🗓️
• --linebreak — linebreak style (CR, CRLF or LF, default: LF) 💅
• --indent — string used for indenting, or a number of spaces (default: 16 (compat 12) spaces) 📏
• --tolerant — ignore class redeclarations in the same file 🫶
• --once — use require_once instead of require when creating a static require file ✨
• --trusting — do not check the mimetype of files prior to parsing (this is the default) 😌
• --paranoid — do check the mimetype of files prior to parsing 🕵️
• --var name=foo — assign the value foo to the variable name, to be used in (custom) templates 🎀
• --lint — run lint on the generated code and exit 🧼
• --lint-php — PHP binary to use for linting (default: /usr/bin/php or c:\php\php.exe) 🐘
• -h, --help — prints this usage information 🥰
• -v, --version — prints the version and exits 👋

ngl bestie, if you pass --hash and --key together, that's a conflict — the manual says so, and we respect the manual 💀

---

and that's the whole vibe check, we ate and left no crumbs 💖✨ version phpab 1.29.4, dated December 2025, byeeee 🦋💅