cebe/markdown

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1012 stars · 137 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

cebe/markdown is a fast, highly extensible Markdown parser library for PHP that converts Markdown to HTML. It ships as a set of PHP classes, each representing a Markdown flavor (traditional Markdown, GitHub-flavored Markdown, and partially Markdown Extra), plus a command-line tool for converting Markdown files to HTML. It exposes an AST-based internal representation so new language elements can be added by adding methods rather than writing fragile regular expressions.

Use cases

• convert markdown files to html from the command line
• render user-submitted markdown comments in a php web app
• parse github-flavored markdown in php
• extend markdown with custom syntax elements
• read markdown structure via an abstract syntax tree
• power documentation rendering for a php framework

When to choose

• you need a fast, well-tested Markdown-to-HTML parser in PHP
• you need GitHub-flavored Markdown support
• you want to extend Markdown with custom elements via an AST instead of regex hacks
• you need a simple CLI tool for batch Markdown conversion

When to avoid

• you need full Markdown Extra support, which is incomplete
• you need a parser in a language other than PHP
• you need SmartyPants or other planned-but-unimplemented flavors
• you need a library under very active development - the latest release is from 2022

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

parser developer-tools parsers documentation developer-tools php cli cross-platform markdown markdown-to-html gfm markdown-extra ast extensible-parser

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