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          <h4>Requirements</h4>
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            <div>PHP 5.3</div>
            <div>CURL enabled</div>
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        <h1>Installation</h1>
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          <a class="pull-right btn btn-large btn-primary" href="/quickstart"><span class="btn-label">QuickStart Guide</span></a> 


            <h4>Follow QuickStart Guide to Install and execute your first test in 6 easy
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              Alternatively you can choose one of the packages to install Codeception
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            <h3>Phar (Recommended)</h3>
            <a class="btn btn-large btn-success" href="/thanks"><span class="btn-label">Download Codeception</span></a>
            <p>Grab Codeception phar executable</p>
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                <code>wget http://codeception.com/codecept.phar .</code>
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            <p>Prepare tests directory and configs</p>
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                <code>php codecept.phar bootstrap</code>
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            <h4>Composer</h4>

<p>Install a <a href="http://getcomposer.org">Composer</a> to your project's root</p>

<p>Run</p>

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  <code>php composer.phar require "codeception/codeception:@stable"</code>
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<p>From now on Codeception (with installed PHPUnit) can be run as:</p>

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  <code>vendor/bin/codecept</code>
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<p>Initialize your testing environment with</p>

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  <code>vendor/bin/codecept bootstrap</code>
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