CakePHP inside a Phar file. NOTE: Change "ROOT" constant in paths.php to "."

build.php

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$phar = new Phar(__DIR__ . '/dist/bownty-infra.phar', 0, 'bownty-infra');

$phar->startBuffering();

$collection = collection(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator(__DIR__)));
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return $file->getFilename() === '.'; });
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return $file->getFilename() === '..'; });
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return strpos($file->getPath(), '.git') !== false; });
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return strpos($file->getPath(), '/dist/') !== false; });
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return strpos($file->getPath(), '/logs/') !== false; });
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return strpos($file->getPath(), '/tmp/') !== false; });
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return strpos($file->getPath(), '/tests/') !== false; });
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return strpos($file->getPath(), '/test/') !== false; });
$collection = $collection->reject(function($file) { return strpos($file->getPath(), '/webroot/') !== false; });

$phar->buildFromIterator($collection, __DIR__);

$stub = "#!/usr/bin/env php \n" . $phar->createDefaultStub('bin/cake-phar.php');
$phar->setStub($stub);

$phar->stopBuffering();

cake-phar.php

<?php
// only change to the file is removing line 1 from bin/cake.php 

include dirname(__DIR__) . '/config/bootstrap.php';
exit(Cake\Console\ShellDispatcher::run($argv));

Makefile

SHELL := /bin/bash

.PHONY: phar clean help
.DEFAULT_GOAL := help

phar: ## Build a phar file
	mkdir -p dist/
	rm -f dist/bownty-infra.phar
	php build.php
	chmod 0775 dist/bownty-infra.phar

clean: ## Cleanup the dist/ directory
	rm -rf dist/

help:
	@grep -P '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'