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      <h4>Requirements</h4>
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        <div>PHP 5.6+</div>
        <div>CURL enabled</div>
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    <h1>Installation</h1>
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          <a class="btn btn-lg btn-warning" href="/quickstart">QuickStart Guide &rarr;</a>
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        <h4>Follow QuickStart Guide to Install and execute your first test in 6 easy
          steps.
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        <h3>Composer <small><i>(recommended)</i></small></h3>
        <p>Install a <a href="http://getcomposer.org">Composer</a> to your project's root</p>
        <p>Run</p>
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          <pre><code>composer require codeception/codeception --dev</code></pre>
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        <p>From now on Codeception (with installed PHPUnit) can be run as:</p>
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          <pre><code>php vendor/bin/codecept</code></pre>
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        <p>Initialize your testing environment with</p>
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          <pre><code>php vendor/bin/codecept bootstrap</code></pre>
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      <h3>Phar</h3>
      {% include phar.html %}      
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    <h3>Git</h3>
    <p>Alternative installation method for bugfixing, contributions and hacking</p>
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      Clone from GitHub:
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    <pre><code>git clone git@github.com:Codeception/Codeception.git && cd Codeception</code></pre>
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      Install dependencies with Composer
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      <pre><code>composer install</code></pre>
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        Execute bootstrap, specifying path to your directory.
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        <pre><code>php codecept bootstrap /path/to/demo/project</code></pre>
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        To <strong>run tests</strong> use <code>-c</code> option for specifing path.
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        <pre><code>php codecept run -c /path/to/demo/project</code></pre>
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    <p>Don't forget to send Pull Requests!</p>
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