ParsedownPlus

ParsedownPlus is an extension of Parsedown that adds support for custom tags such as colored text, forced RTL/LTR direction, monospace fonts, and video embedding for YouTube and Vimeo. These custom tags are not standard Markdown.

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Installation

1. Include the ParsedownPlus.php class in your project.
2. (Optional) Create a config.php file in the same directory as ParsedownPlus.php to define custom colors and fonts. You can use the provided config-sample.php as a template.

<?php
// include parsedown libraries
require_once(BASE."libraries/parsedown-1.8.0-beta-6/Parsedown.php");
require_once(BASE."libraries/parsedown-extra-0.8.1/ParsedownExtra.php");
require_once(BASE."libraries/parsedown-extended-1.1.2-modified/ParsedownExtended.php");
require_once(BASE."libraries/parsedown-filter-0.0.1/ParsedownFilter.php");
require_once(BASE."libraries/parsedown-plus-0.0.5/ParsedownPlus.php");

// initialize markdown parser
$PARSER=new ParsedownPlus([
	'typographer' => true,
	'toc' => true,
	'sup' => true,
	'sub' => true
]);

$markdown = "YouTube video: [video src=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_wxUvvO4c\"]

Vimeo video: [video src=\"https://vimeo.com/423640994\"]

[color=#ff0000]Red[/color], [color=#00FF00]Green[/color], [color=#0000FF]Blue[/color]

[rtl]Forced RTL text.[/rtl]

[mono]Forced monospaced text.[/mono]

;
$html = $PARSER->text($markdown);
echo $html;

Configuration (optional)

config-sample.php

<?php

return [
    // Define a custom monospace font
    'fonts' => [
        'monospace' => 'Courier New, monospace',
    ],
    // Add predefined colors
    'colors' => [
        'customred' => '#8D021F',
        // Add more colors as needed
    ]
];

Examples

YouTube Embedding

[video src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_wxUvvO4c"]

Vimeo Embedding

[video src="https://vimeo.com/423640994"]

Colored Text

[color=#ff0000]Red[/color], [color=#00FF00]Green[/color], [color=#0000FF]Blue[/color]

Predefined colors can be used like this:

Predefined colors: [color=customred]predefined red[/color].

Forced RTL/LTR

[rtl]Forced RTL example.[/rtl]

Monospace Font

[mono]example[/mono]

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License

ParsedownPlus is licensed under the GPLv3 License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! If you have suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, please open an issue or submit a pull request on the repository. Make sure to follow the project's code of conduct and contribution guidelines. Thank you for helping improve ParsedownPlus!