PHP 5 port of Markdown, plugin-based

[Michel Fortin]

Le 15 août 2006 à 11:21, Paul M Jones a écrit :


> First of all, thanks to John Gruber for the fantastic Markdown  

> syntax and parse/render system.  Also, thanks to Michel Fortin for  

> his PHP 4 version of Markdown.


I find your announcement a little misleading. You make it sounds like  
PHP Markdown doesn't work with PHP 5. Just to make things clear, this  
isn't the case: PHP Markdown works equally well on PHP 4 and PHP 5;  
it was built with both in mind and is tested on both major versions  
of PHP regularly.

I'd rather describe what you did this way:

*   you took PHP Markdown's internal transformations and made tiny,
     plugable modules out of each of then, then created a full parser
     for the Solar framework using these modules;
*   you made the code E_STRICT-compilant within PHP 5;
*   you arranged the code and the comments to fit PEAR coding standards.

This is clearly impressive, but I wouldn't call this a port.



> I have taken some liberties with this implementation, such as using  

> delimited integer markers instead of MD5 hashes, and changing some  

> of the rule names (e.g., from "Anchors" to "Links" in one case, and  

> from "ItalicsAndBold" to "EmStrong" in another).


I've always wondered why John chose these function names. And going  
away from hashes seems like a good idea too.


Michel Fortin
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