What is this?
Parsedown is a Markdown parser library for PHP: you feed it Markdown text and it converts it into HTML.
Parsedown is a Markdown parser library for PHP: you feed it Markdown text and it converts it into HTML.Is it a library I call from my PHP code, or an app I run?It is a library: you include it in a PHP project and call it wherever your code needs Markdown turned into HTML — there is no interface or app to run.
It is a library: you include it in a PHP project and call it wherever your code needs Markdown turned into HTML — there is no interface or app to run.How do I use it in my code?You create a Parsedown instance and call its text() method with a Markdown string; it returns the rendered HTML. That is the basic usage shown in the README.
You create a Parsedown instance and call its text() method with a Markdown string; it returns the rendered HTML. That is the basic usage shown in the README.Can I safely render Markdown submitted by my site's visitors?Not out of the box — the README warns outright that its default method is not safe from XSS. A safe mode escapes HTML, but the README cautions it still allows unsafe scripting vectors.
Not out of the box — the README warns outright that its default method is not safe from XSS. A safe mode escapes HTML, but the README cautions it still allows unsafe scripting vectors.Who uses it in real projects?It is widely adopted: Laravel Framework, Bolt CMS, Grav CMS, Kirby CMS, October CMS, Pico CMS, Statamic CMS, phpDocumentor, RaspberryPi.org and the Symfony Demo all use it.
It is widely adopted: Laravel Framework, Bolt CMS, Grav CMS, Kirby CMS, October CMS, Pico CMS, Statamic CMS, phpDocumentor, RaspberryPi.org and the Symfony Demo all use it.Does it pass the CommonMark test suite?Mostly: Parsedown passes most of the CommonMark tests, and the ones it fail deal with uncommon cases. The author expects compliance to improve as the spec matures.
Mostly: Parsedown passes most of the CommonMark tests, and the ones it fail deal with uncommon cases. The author expects compliance to improve as the spec matures.How does Parsedown parse Markdown differently from other parsers?It reads Markdown like a human: how lines start reveals blocks (a line beginning with a - may belong to a list), then it watches for special characters to spot inline elements. The author calls this the 'line based' approach and says it was the first parser to use it, with others following in PHP and beyond.
It reads Markdown like a human: how lines start reveals blocks (a line beginning with a - may belong to a list), then it watches for special characters to spot inline elements. The author calls this the 'line based' approach and says it was the first parser to use it, with others following in PHP and beyond.What else has the author built?The author also makes Nota, a notes app designed for local Markdown files.
The author also makes Nota, a notes app designed for local Markdown files.What are similar projects?marked, markdown-it, nom, lexer, liteparse, PHP-Parser, turndown, go
marked, markdown-it, nom, lexer, liteparse, PHP-Parser, turndown, goWhich topics is it in?commonmark, parsing, cms, text-processing, parser, php, developers, backend, html, markdown, web-development, free
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