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+SUBDIRS = examples
+EXTRA_DIST = README
diff --git a/php/README b/php/README
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+                                  _   _ ____  _     
+                              ___| | | |  _ \| |    
+                             / __| | | | |_) | |    
+                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___ 
+                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+
+PHP
+
+ There's an excellent interface to curl written for PHP by Sterling Hughes.
+
+Unfortunately, we don't have much information about that included here yet,
+but there's a detailed online manual for it over at:
+
+        http://www.php.net/manual/ref.curl.php
diff --git a/php/examples/Makefile.am b/php/examples/Makefile.am
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+EXTRA_DIST = README getpageinvar.php simpleget.php simplepost.php