PHP Markdown

PHP Markdown Converter

1. Headings
2. Italics
3. Bold
4. Strike Through
5. Links
6. Images
7. Lists
   • Unordered List
   • Ordered List
8. Block Quotes
9. Tables

Markdown is a PHP library for converting markdown to markup. It is a useful tool for creating documentation on a web page. For example, if your website contains a blog, wiki pages, any sort of editing from users you could allow them to style their documents using markdown.

Headings

# <h1>

## <h2>

### <h3>

#### <h4>

##### <h5>

## This is a Heading Two will produce the following markup <h2>This is a Heading Two</h2>

Italics

__text__

Wrap text in __ to make it italics

__this text is italic__ will produce the following markup <em>this text is italic</em>

Bold

**text**

Wrap text in ** to make it bold

**this text is bold** will produce the following markup <strong>this text is bold</strong>

Links

[Text](Hyperlink)

Create links by inserting the link text in square brackets followed by the hyperlink in normal brackets

Google

[Google](https://google.ie) will product the following markup <a href="https://gooogle.ie" target="_blank">Google</a>

Images

![Alt Text](link to image)

Create images by inserting the alternate text in square brackets followed by the link to the image in normal brackets

![Git Logo](https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/modules/logos_page/GitHub-Logo.png) will produce the following markup <img src="https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/modules/logos_page/GitHub-Mark.png" alt="Git Logo" />

Code

Create inline code elements by surrounding elements in ```var x;```;

```var x;```

produces the following markup

<code>var x;</code>

if you need to span multiple lines use 4 back-ticks instead of three, and make sure to have one line break inside the back-ticks

Lists

Unordered Lists

List
 - item one
 - item two
 - item three

will product the following markup

<ul>
    <li>item one</li>
    <li>item two</li>
    <li>item three</li>
</ul>

Ordered Lists

List
 1. item one
 2. item two
 3. item three

will product the following markup

<ol>
    <li>item one</li>
    <li>item two</li>
    <li>item three</li>
</ol>

Block Quotes

> this is a block quote

will product the following markup

<blockquote> this is a block quote</blockquote>

Tables

Tables can now be created by using the bar character. Use the | character to outline your table and it's columns

|Heading One|Heading Two|Heading Three|
|Row1Col1|Row1Col2|Row1Col2|
|Row2Col1|Row2Col2|Row2Col2|
|Row3Col1|Row3Col2|Row3Col2|

produces a HTML table like:

<table border="border">
    <thead>
        <th>heading one</th>
        <th>heading two</th>
        <th>heading three</th>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>row1Col1</td><td>row1Col2</td><td>row1Col3</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>row2Col1</td><td>row2Col2</td><td>row2Col3</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>row3Col1</td><td>row3 col2</td><td>row3Col3</td>
         </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>