In this new post on Greg Beaver's blog today, there's the announcement of the release of version 0.7.0 of his package, PHP_Archive.

As I blogged about earlier, PHP_Archive has been completely refactored both to reduce the size of the archive and to improve its efficiency tremendously.

This new release also opens up the possibility of making a .phar extension, something that would outperform PHP_Archive even more. Making it super-efficient will even allow running PHP apps right out of a .phar.

You can grab this latest release (0.7.0) from the package's PEAR page at http://pear.php.net/PHP_Archive...