Markdown Discuss - Oct 2007 - First Markdownify Beta released

Hi folks!

I finally released the first Beta of Markdownify - the HTML to Markdown 
converter for PHP. It is the successor to the old `html2text.php` and is much 
more stable. It's pretty much a complete rewrite and supports all Markdown 
and PHP Markdown Extra syntax features.

It's beta since I still have to add a word wrapping feature and
"Markdown
inside block elements" is not yet working for PHP Markdown Extra.

If you want to try it, just download the beta package from here:
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204915>

This package only contains three classes:

1. `parsehtml.php`: a HTML parser I wrote
2. `markdownify.php`: the Markdownify Class for standard Markdown syntax
3. `markdownify_extra.php`: the analogous class for PHP Markdown Extra syntax

How to use Markdown can be read on it's website:
<http://milianw.de/projects/markdownify/>

There's also a little demo page which highlights differences:
<http://milianw.de/projects/markdownify/demo.php>

If you want to get more into development or if you want to convince yourself 
of it's stability I urge you to checkout the sourcecode via SVN:
<http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=204915>

Most notably you will want `trunk/markdownify` and `trunk/test`. Then go to 
the test folder (CLI!) and e.g. run the following:

    ./regressions.sh

For Markdownify Extra run:

    ./regressions.sh --extra

For a quick overview run (`--extra` is optional):

    ./regressions.sh --profile [--extra]

If you want to try a given testcase use `test.php` with the options above and 
those below:

    --suite [1|2|3]     which test suite to use, defaults to 1
                                1: Markdown
                                2: PHP Markdown
                                3: PHP Markdown Extra
    --test "NAME"     try testcase "NAME" (without `.text`
or `.(x)html`)
    --show INT         show testcase number INT

Those should be the most important parameters. I'll add a `--help` argument 
today.

So happy hacking! If you could, please do a code review and send me patches or 
just notify me of glitches! Also any bugs etc. would most appreciated on the 
tracker:
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=204915>

Have fun, I'm off to my first day at university ;-)
-- 
Milian Wolff
http://milianw.de
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Milian,

This is great. But I have a question. Are you going to add a method  
of running this in the browser offline like with html2text? Even  
something like the demo.php page included with the set.

-- 
Andy Fragen


On Oct 7, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Milian Wolff wrote:
> I finally released the first Beta of Markdownify - the HTML to  
> Markdown
> converter for PHP. It is the successor to the old `html2text.php`  
> and is much
> more stable. It's pretty much a complete rewrite and supports all  
> Markdown
> and PHP Markdown Extra syntax features.
>
> This package only contains three classes:
>
> 1. `parsehtml.php`: a HTML parser I wrote
> 2. `markdownify.php`: the Markdownify Class for standard Markdown  
> syntax
> 3. `markdownify_extra.php`: the analogous class for PHP Markdown  
> Extra syntax
>
> How to use Markdown can be read on it's website:
> <http://milianw.de/projects/markdownify/>
>
> There's also a little demo page which highlights differences:
> <http://milianw.de/projects/markdownify/demo.php>