graphql-php/README.md

# graphql-php
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This is a PHP implementation of the GraphQL [specification](https://github.com/facebook/graphql)
based on the [reference implementation in JavaScript](https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js).

## Installation
Via composer:
```
composer require webonyx/graphql-php
```

## Documentation
Full documentation is available on the [Documentation site](http://webonyx.github.io/graphql-php/) as well 
as in the [docs](docs/) folder of the distribution.

If you don't know what GraphQL is, visit this [official website](http://graphql.org) 
by the Facebook engineering team.

## Examples
There are several ready examples in the [examples](examples/) folder of the distribution with specific 
README file per example.

## Contribute
Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on how to contribute.

## Old README.md
Here is a [link to the old README.md](https://github.com/webonyx/graphql-php/blob/v0.9.14/README.md). 

Keep in mind that it relates to the version 0.9.x. It may contain outdated information for 
newer versions (even though we try to preserve backwards compatibility).