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View Helper Plugin for CakePHP 3.x that enables conversion of Markdown into HTML

WHY?

Because Markdown is super sexy and is a great way to allow for user-friendly editing with the HTML generated at runtime (or cached, or whatever you want to do)

HOW?

Just add the Markdown.Markdown Helper to your view and use it. Easy peasy.

Requirements

• PHP 5.4+
• CakePHP 3.x
• erusev/Parsedown

TOC

1. Plugin Installation
2. Usage
3. Contributing

Plugin Installation

This plugin is on Packagist which means it can be easily installed with Composer.

composer require cwbit/cakephp-markdown "~1.0"

Then simply load the plugin normally in your config/bootstrap.php file

# in ../config/bootstrap.php - right after Plugin::load('Migrations') is fine!
Plugin::load('Markdown');

Manual installation is neither supported nor recommended - just drop the MarkdownHelper in your src\View\Helper and change the namespaces and stuff.

Usage

First, make sure you loaded the plugin (see above)

Then, Add the MarkdownHelper thru AppView or however you prefer to load helpers

namespace App\View;

use Cake\View\View;

class AppView extends View
{
    public function initialize()
    {
        parent::initialize();
		# ..
        $this->loadHelper('Markdown.Markdown');
    }
}

Then, in a Template file, use the helper

<div class="description">
	<?= $this->Markdown->toHtml($entity->description); ?>
</div>

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please submit a PR with your changes!

Requests will be accepted more readily if they come complete with TESTS :D