diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+# composer related
+composer.lock
+composer.phar
+vendor
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
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+{
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "email": "thesaur@php.net",
+            "name": "Klaus Guenther",
+            "role": "Lead"
+        },
+        {
+            "email": "avb@php.net",
+            "name": "Alexey Borzov",
+            "role": "Lead"
+        },
+        {
+            "email": "bmansion@mamasam.com",
+            "name": "Bertrand Mansion",
+            "role": "Lead"
+        },
+        {
+            "email": "adaniel1@eesus.jnj.com",
+            "name": "Adam Daniel",
+            "role": "Lead"
+        }
+    ],
+    "autoload": {
+        "classmap": [
+            "./"
+        ]
+    },
+    "description": "More info available on: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Common",
+    "license": "PHP License",
+    "name": "pear/html_common",
+    "support": {
+        "issues": "http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=HTML_Common",
+        "source": "https://github.com/pear/HTML_Common"
+    },
+    "type": "library",
+    "require": {
+        "pear/pear_exception": "*"
+    },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "*"
+    }
+}
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