Formatting MTEntryKeywords, MTEntryExcerpt with Markdown

[Jacob Patton]

Hi,

I'm following Brad Choate's instructions (http://tinyurl.com/42cr8) for 
using Movable Type with Smarty templates, and I've run into some 
difficulty formatting the MT keywords and excerpts with Markdown.  
Hopefully somebody here can help.

The trouble lies in the "Entry to PHP Hash" template module which 
populates an array with all of the MT variables.  I'm using Markdown 
and SmartyPants to format the post entries, and that seems to work, but 
I can't for the life of me get the module to format the keywords and 
excerpt fields.

Here's the offending section of code:

// Begin code
$entry['keywords'] = <<<KEYWORDS
<$MTEntryKeywords encode_php="heredoc" $>
KEYWORDS;

$entry['excerpt'] = <<<EXCERPT
<$MTEntryExcerpt encode_php="heredoc" $>
EXCERPT;
// End code

As you can see, I've encoded the variables with MT's heredoc syntax to 
avoid any problems with unescaped quotes, but of course this doesn't 
take care of smartening up the quotes or marking up the fields with 
XHTML.

What I'd rather do is this:

// Begin code
<MTMarkdownOptions>

$entry['keywords'] = '<$MTEntryKeywords$>';
$entry['excerpt'] = '<$MTEntryExcerpt$>';

</MTMarkdownOptions>
// End code

But it doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone know how to format these variables with Markdown and 
SmartyPants?

Thanks very much,

Jacob Patton
Director of Outreach and Technology

Free the Slaves
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Washington, DC 20005

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