Provdes an easy way to add Markdown to your symfony project.

Using the markdown and smartypants libraries from Michel Fortin, and the MarkItUp editor, I have made an easy to use widget and library for using Markdown content in Symfony.

It assumes majaxJqueryPlugin is loaded (or some form of jQuery 1.4.x and jQuery UI 1.8.x)

• PHP Markdown: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
• PHP Smartypants: http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/
• MarkItUp: http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/
• majaxJqueryPlugin: https://github.com/jmather/majaxJqueryPlugin

##Basic Setup

Enable the majaxMarkdown module in your application's settings.yml

To use the widget in your Form class:

class ... snip

  public function configure()
  {
    // ... snip ...

    $parameters = array();
    $attributes = array('style' => 'height: 100px;');
    $this->setWidget('content', new majaxWidgetFormMarkdownEditor($parameters, $attributes));

    // ... snip ...
  }
}

To render the content:

  echo majaxMarkdown::transform($markdown_content);

You can control it with options in your app.yml:

all:
  majaxMarkdown:
    style: markdown_extra # choose markdown or markdown_extra
    smartypants_enabled: true # true / false
    smartypants_style: smartypants_typographer # choose smartypants or smartypants_typographer
    smartypants_options: 1 # You'll want to check the smartypants docs for more info on this...
    post_render: false
    post_preview: false

##Adding Post Renderers

You can post-process both the generated text, and also only the preview text, by supplying what function to run to app_majaxMedia_post_render or app_majaxMedia_post_preview like so:

 sfConfig::set('app_majaxMedia_post_render', array('className', 'static_function'));

or

sfConfig::set('app_majaxMedia_post_preview', 'some_function_name');