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 ### Overview
 
-This library was created to have php port of the python influxdb client. 
+A easy to use library for using InfluxDB with PHP.
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+The influxdb-php library was created to have php port of the python influxdb client. 
 This way there will be a common abstraction library between different programming languages.
 
 ### Installation