Parsedown
Better Markdown Parser in PHP (by erusev)
CommonMark PHP
Highly-extensible PHP Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark and GFM specs. (by thephpleague)
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Parsedown | CommonMark PHP | |
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7 | 6 | |
14,644 | 2,650 | |
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4.6 | 6.9 | |
15 days ago | 1 day ago | |
PHP | PHP | |
MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Parsedown
Posts with mentions or reviews of Parsedown.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.
- Parsedown: Better Markdown Parser in PHP
- What is your tech stack for blog websites? (not wordpress)
- PHP in 2023
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Let's create a Markdown editor just like dev.to
So for parsing the data we will use parsedown It is written in PHP which is actually 6x faster than normal parsers... So I think this is best for parsing our data
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Markdown library that supports disabling many features?
Yeah, I ended up finding https://github.com/erusev/parsedown/issues/229 during my research. It's an acceptable option, but I was hoping I missed something even better. Thank you!
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What does Laravel use for its documentation?
Looks like they use Parsedown
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How markdown emails work in Laravel using `league/commonmark` package
The first package used to parse markdown was erusev/parsedown
CommonMark PHP
Posts with mentions or reviews of CommonMark PHP.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-12.
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Working with Markdown in PHP
To render Markdown files, we'll use the league/commonmark package. You can read the full documentation for the package here.
- livewire markdown editor suggestions
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league/commonmark 2.0.0-beta2 now available for testing
It will never catch up to Parsedown but we've closed the gap substantially. Here are the latest results from our internal benchmark script:
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How markdown emails work in Laravel using `league/commonmark` package
From the About section of league/commonmark package:
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Given a user submitted text, how would you add hyperlinks to certain word strings?
You might want to try https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark. It has some options like disabling raw HTML: https://commonmark.thephpleague.com/1.5/security/
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Can build in Markdown library limit the use of certain tags?
It gets quite granular: https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/blob/latest/src/Extension/CommonMark/CommonMarkCoreExtension.php
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Parsedown and CommonMark PHP you can also consider the following projects:
PHP Markdown - Parser for Markdown and Markdown Extra derived from the original Markdown.pl by John Gruber.
A HTML DOM parser written in PHP - 📜 Modern Simple HTML DOM Parser for PHP
HTML to Markdown - Convert HTML to Markdown with PHP
Emoji - A simple PHP library for handling Emoji
Shortcode - Advanced shortcode (BBCode) parser and engine for PHP
Cebe Markdown - A super fast, highly extensible markdown parser for PHP
HTML5 PHP - An HTML5 parser and serializer for PHP.
Decoda - A lightweight lexical string parser for BBCode styled markup.
Parsedown vs PHP Markdown
CommonMark PHP vs A HTML DOM parser written in PHP
Parsedown vs HTML to Markdown
CommonMark PHP vs PHP Markdown
Parsedown vs Emoji
CommonMark PHP vs Shortcode
Parsedown vs Cebe Markdown
CommonMark PHP vs HTML5 PHP
Parsedown vs A HTML DOM parser written in PHP
CommonMark PHP vs Decoda
Parsedown vs HTML5 PHP
CommonMark PHP vs Emoji