Creating Shared libraries in PHP

Question

Im working on a few php based projects and im having an issue of having to maintain separate code bases with common code. The common code shared amongst all the projects is added physically (file are copied in the folder) and when a change is needed we have to manually replicate the fixes in the common code functionality in each project.

In java we can create a library (jar file) and share it among different projects. Is there any shared library related concept available in PHP 5.

Answer 1

PHP's version of a jar is called Phar: http://php.net/manual/en/book.phar.php