These days, good PHP object-oriented libraries are all around and easily available. To me, it is actually thrilling to be part of this flourishing community, while working with Symfony2 and blogging about the Framework, the Components and their neighbors (like Silex). It seems like everything is made for contributing to this nice and friendly environment, with tools like GitHub (online collaboration), Composer (dependency management), Packagist (package archive) and Travis CI (continuous integration).

Still, to me, contributing felt like too big a step to take right now. Until a few weeks ago, when I was looking for something I needed (a PHP client for the Microsoft Translator API) and could not find a decent solution. I decided to make it myself, and share it online. Below I’ve written down my steps. As you can see, they are very easy and would require just a bit of extra time. So, take from it what you need, and start contributing!