michelf/php-markdown

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A PHP library that parses Markdown and Markdown Extra syntax and converts it to HTML, derived from John Gruber's original Markdown.pl. It is installed via Composer and used by calling static transform methods or configurable parser instances.

Use cases

• convert markdown text to html in php
• render user-submitted markdown comments
• parse markdown with tables and footnotes via markdown extra
• add markdown rendering to a php blog or cms
• transform markdown files into web pages

When to choose

• you need a battle-tested, faithful Markdown implementation in PHP
• you need Markdown Extra features like tables, footnotes, and definition lists
• your project already uses Composer and PSR-4 autoloading

When to avoid

• you need CommonMark strict compliance or GFM extensions like task lists
• you are not working in PHP
• you need very high-performance parsing of huge documents

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

parser markdown templating web-development parsers documentation php markdown-to-html markdown-extra composer web-server

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