## Common Protos PHP [](https://cloud.google.com/terms/launch-stages)  - [Documentation](https://googleapis.github.io/common-protos-php) This repository is a home for the [protocol buffer][protobuf] types which are common dependencies throughout the Google API ecosystem, generated for PHP. The protobuf definitions for these generated PHP classes are provided in the [API Common Protos][api-common-protos] repository. ## Using these generated classes These classes are made available under an Apache license (see `LICENSE`) and you are free to depend on them within your applications. They are considered stable and will not change in backwards-incompaible ways. They are distributed as the [google/common-protos][packagist-common-protos] composer package, available on [Packagist][packagist]. In order to depend on these classes, add the following line to your composer.json file in the `requires` section: ``` "google/common-protos": "^2.0" ``` Or else use composer from the command line: ```bash composer require google/common-protos ``` ## License These classes are licensed using the Apache 2.0 software license, a permissive, copyfree license. You are free to use them in your applications provided the license terms are honored. [api-style]: https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/ [protobuf]: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ [api-common-protos]: https://github.com/googleapis/api-common-protos/ [packagist-common-protos]: https://packagist.org/packages/google/common-protos/ [packagist]: https://packagist.org/