What the Avro PHP library is
============================

A library for using [Avro](http://avro.apache.org/) with PHP.

Requirements
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 * PHP 5
 * On 32-bit platforms, the [GMP PHP extension](http://php.net/gmp)
 * For testing, [PHPUnit](http://www.phpunit.de/)

Both GMP and PHPUnit are often available via package management
systems as `php5-gmp` and `phpunit`, respectively.

Getting started
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```
$ composer require wikimedia/avro
```

History
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Extracted from https://github.com/apache/avro using `git subtree`.