# Installing poche
## requirements
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-it's highly recommended to have php cURL and tidy_parse_string to fetch articles content.
+* PHP 5.2.0 or higher
+* XML ([?](http://php.net/xml))
+* PCRE ([?](http://php.net/pcre))
+* Data filtering ([?](http://uk.php.net/manual/en/book.filter.php))
+* Tidy ([?](http://php.net/tidy))
+* cURL ([?](http://php.net/curl))
+* Parallel URL fetching
+* allow_url_fopen ([?](http://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.allow-url-fopen))
+
+To see if your server is ok to run poche, execute http://yourpoche/poche_compatibility_test.php.
## you don't want to install twig (the template engine) by yourself