BOX Manifest

April 1, 2026 · View on GitHub

Main goal of this project is to write a manifest in any PHP Archive (PHAR) built with the BOX tool.

Features

Provides a Symfony Console Application with the binary command box-manifest that :

Can generate manifest in Composer tree format (composer-tree-text or composer-tree-json)
Can generate manifest in CycloneDX SBOM Standard format (sbom-json or sbom-xml)
Can generate manifest in a simple key-value pairs plain text format (key: value)
Can generate manifest in a decorated text format console-style or console-table (distinguish direct dependencies requirement and other uses)
Can generate manifest in a custom user format
Can generate a stub that should be able to display one or all manifests provided by the PHP Archive
Can inspect a PHAR to find and display manifests contents

Version	Status	Box Project Compatibility	PHP
`4.0.x` to `4.4.x`	Active development	`4.6.x` to `4.7.x`	`>= 8.2`
`3.0.x` to `3.5.x`	End Of Life	`4.0.x` to `4.3.x`	`>= 8.1`
`2.0.x` to `2.3.x`	End Of Life	`4.0.x` to `4.2.x`	`>= 8.1`
`1.0.x` to `1.2.0`	End Of Life	`3.x`	`>= 7.4`

All the documentation is available on website, generated from the docs folder.