Text_Template should be installed using the [PEAR Installer](http://pear.php.net/). This installer is the backbone of PEAR, which provides a distribution system for PHP packages, and is shipped with every release of PHP since version 4.3.0.
## Installation
The PEAR channel (`pear.phpunit.de`) that is used to distribute Text_Template needs to be registered with the local PEAR environment:
To add this package as a local, per-project dependency to your project, simply add a dependency on `phpunit/php-text-template` to your project's `composer.json` file. Here is a minimal example of a `composer.json` file that just defines a dependency on Text_Template: