serving markdown directly : any suggestions?

Wed Feb 4 05:11:58 EST 2015

this is way too cool.

i can always use this during the prototype phase.
production phase would need to avoid php, ruby, python, etc. as the 
community for which i am building this typically looks down upon those.
that's actually why and how i landed upon this list, i was looking for a 
markdown transformation script written in perl, and found it on the 
daringfireball.net website.

~mayuresh

On 2015-02-04 15:21, Piero Wbmstr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have some personal (public) work that could interest you:
> 
> - first a simple PHP parser [6]
> (https://github.com/piwi/markdown-extended) quite easy to use and you
> can run on any server using PHP 5.3+
> 
> - then an online webservice to transform a markdown content available
> at http://api.aboutmde.org/ [7] that uses a simple Webservice
> interface available at https://github.com/piwi/mde-service [8] (with
> the documentation of the online tool)
> 
> - finally, a simple Apache configuration to display any ".md" file
> parsing it with the PHP parser: https://github.com/piwi/mde-cgi [9]
> Hope this could help.
> 
> -- piwi
> 
> Le 04.02.2015 10:36, mofo syne a écrit :
> 
>> Okay then, well if you are running in php, and you got the
>> parsedown.php file as well, then you can give this a shot.
>> 
>> Just modify the .htaccess file rewrite rule from "RewriteCond
>> %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*).md" to "RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*).html"
>> 
>> See if that works for you.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> ==============
>> 
>> <?php
>> /*
>> Coder: Brian Khuu briankhuu.com [1]
>> Purpose: To allow for displaying of .md file transparently to
>> visitors via http://parsedown.org [2] and mod_rewrite
>> Usage: Place this file (parsedownRender.php) in your root directory
>> and add these lines below to your .htaccess file
>> 
>> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*).md
>> RewriteRule .
>> /parsedownRender.php?css=/css/markdown1.css&file=%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
>> </IfModule>
>> 
>> */
>> $file = "./".$_GET["file"]; // 'file' => /md/test.md [3]
>> $css = ( $_GET['css']!="" ) ? htmlspecialchars($_GET['css']) :
>> "/css/style.css";
>> 
>> function parsedownInclude($f){
>> require_once 'Parsedown.php';
>> $Parsedown = new Parsedown();
>> echo is_readable($f) ? $Parsedown->text(file_get_contents($f)) :
>> "File Not Found: ".htmlspecialchars($f);
>> }
>> ?>
>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>> <head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $css
>> ?>" /></head>
>> <body>
>> <?php parsedownInclude($file) ?>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in>
>> wrote:
>> i did muse around with that approach, but, that's not what is
>> expected for my use case.
>> 
>> i need the markdown content to be dynamically transformed to
>> (x)html on the server.
>> this is to allow collaborators on the documentation to send in only
>> diff files for corrections, additions, etc. which would be
>> plain-text, which is easier to understand for non web (html + css)
>> developers.
>> 
>> i guess i missed mentioning the project for which i am doing this,
>> it is for the "openbsd faq".
>> 
>> this is just a test run, once i succeed, i intend to convert the
>> entire "faq" to markdown, probably by hand, set up a server for the
>> demo, before submitting it to the openbsd crowd for consideration.
>> 
>> ~mayuresh
>> 
>> On 2015-02-04 14:50, mofo syne wrote:
>> Have you considered compiling the website on your computer first
>> then
>> uploading it as a static website?
>> 
>> E.g. via Jekyll?
>> hi,
>> 
>> have been tinkering with markdown for a few hours now, so am still
>> a
>> noob.
>> 
>> would like to use it for a documentation project which will be
>> served
>> over the web.
>> 
>> need to know if there's any way to transform markdown content to
>> (x)html on the fly at the web server level?
>> 
>> use case:
>> a web server with the above capabilities would have the document
>> root
>> folder holding a bunch of markdown files and a 'css' file.
>> on visiting that web server's address over 'http', the index.md [4]
>> [1]
>> file would get transformed into (x)html, pick-up the 'css' and show
>> a
>> beautiful page to the visitor.
>> all this, while i would be busy writing plain old markdown.
>> 
>> i am sorry if this has been asked out here before, but i couldn't
>> find any such queries, perhaps my googling skills are bad. :)
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> ~mayuresh
>> 
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> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://briankhuu.com
> [2] http://parsedown.org
> [3] http://test.md
> [4] http://index.md
> [5] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
> [6] https://github.com/piwi/markdown-extended
> [7] http://api.aboutmde.org/
> [8] https://github.com/piwi/mde-service
> [9] https://github.com/piwi/mde-cgi