README

About

Extension of the Cebe's Markdown library for parsing Mrkdown into WikiText syntax.

It's used as backend library for MediaWiki MarkdownWiki parser.

Features

The parser render links and tables in wiki format.

Supported elements

Inline elemets

• bold
• italc
• code highlit
• links
• images

Block elements

• blockquote
• headlines
• horizontal ruler
• ordered and unordered lists
• paragraphs
• preformatted text
• tables

Extra structures

Templates

Example:

---
template: temaplate name
myparam1: content of my param1
myparam2: content of my param2
---

first 2 lines are mandatory. Other lines are optional. Code check if : is present.

End of parsing is on the end of the template or on first empty line.

Magic words

Double underscored behavior switches for MediaWiki parser has the same format as markdown bold text. To avoid issues with that words new format is introduced.

{{__NOTOC__}} instread of simple __NOTOC__. The markdown-wiki parser is removing curly brackets and magic word is applyed during wiki parsing.

Installation

The installation is following the reccomandation of the original Cebe's Markdown library.

Installation is recommended to be done via composer) by running:

composer require paveld/markdown-wiki "*"

and then

composer update paveld/markdown-wiki

Configuration

If you don't need to parse some of the elements it's possible to remove parsing by following directive.

$m = new MarkdownWiki();\
$m->disableParsingRule('headline');
$wikTextb = $m->parse($MarkdownText);

List of possible paramters for the disableParsingRule() method:

Some elements are idetified by by several rules.

Block elements

• Code block by code and fencedcode
• Headline by headline
• Horizontal ruler by ahr and hr
• HTML elements by html
• Markdown table by table
• Ordered list by ol
• Quote block by quote
• Template by aaatemplate and template
• Unordered list by bul and ul

Inline elements

• Escape by parseEscape
• Greater-than sign by parseGt
• HTML entities by parseEntity
• Image by parseImage
• Inline code by parseInlineCode
• Links by parseLink
• Magic word by parseMagicWord
• Special attributes by parseSpecialAttributes
• Strong and intalic by parseEmphStrong

License

MIT