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External Links Extension
This extension can detect links to external sites and adjust the markup accordingly:
- Adds a
rel="noopener noreferrer"attribute - Optionally adds any custom HTML classes
Installation
This extension is bundled with league/commonmark. This library can be installed via Composer:
composer require league/commonmark
See the installation section for more details.
Usage
Configure your Environment as usual and simply add the ExternalLinkExtension provided by this package:
use League\CommonMark\CommonMarkConverter;
use League\CommonMark\Environment;
use League\CommonMark\Extension\ExternalLink\ExternalLinkExtension;
// Obtain a pre-configured Environment with all the CommonMark parsers/renderers ready-to-go
$environment = Environment::createCommonMarkEnvironment();
// Add this extension
$environment->addExtension(new ExternalLinkExtension());
// Set your configuration
$config = [
'external_link' => [
'internal_hosts' => 'www.example.com', // Don't forget to set this!
'open_in_new_window' => true,
'html_class' => 'external-link',
],
];
// Instantiate the converter engine and start converting some Markdown!
$converter = new CommonMarkConverter($config, $environment);
echo $converter->convertToHtml('I successfully installed the <https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark> project!');
Configuration
This extension supports three configuration options under the external_link configuration:
internal_hosts
This option defines a list of hosts which are considered non-external and should not receive the external link treatment.
This can be a single host name, like 'example.com', which must match exactly.
Wildcard matching is also supported using regular expression like '/(^|\.)example\.com$/'. Note that you must use / characters to delimit your regex.
This configuration option also accepts an array of multiple strings and/or regexes:
$config = [
'external_link' => [
'internal_hosts' => ['foo.example.com', 'bar.example.com', '/(^|\.)google\.com$/],
],
];
By default, if this option is not provided, all links will be considered external.
open_in_new_window
This option (which defaults to false) determines whether any external links should open in a new tab/window.
html_class
This option allows you to provide a string containing one or more HTML classes that should be added to the external link <a> tags: No classes are added by default.
Advanced Rendering
When an external link is detected, the ExternalLinkProcessor will set the external data option on the Link node to either true or false. You can therefore create a custom link renderer which checks this value and behaves accordingly:
use League\CommonMark\ElementRendererInterface;
use League\CommonMark\HtmlElement;
use League\CommonMark\Inline\Element\AbstractInline;
use League\CommonMark\Inline\Element\Link;
use League\CommonMark\Inline\Renderer\InlineRendererInterface;
class MyCustomLinkRenderer implements InlineRendererInterface
{
/**
* @param Link $inline
* @param ElementRendererInterface $htmlRenderer
*
* @return HtmlElement
*/
public function render(AbstractInline $inline, ElementRendererInterface $htmlRenderer)
{
if (!($inline instanceof Link)) {
throw new \InvalidArgumentException('Incompatible inline type: ' . \get_class($inline));
}
if ($inline->getData('external')) {
// This is an external link - render it accordingly
} else {
// This is an internal link
}
// ...
}
}
Adding Icons
You can also use CSS to automagically add an external link icon by targeting the html_class given in the configuration:
// Font Awesome example:
a[target="_blank"]::after,
a.external::after {
content: "\f08e";
font: normal normal normal 14px/1 FontAwesome;
}
// Glyphicon example:
a[target="_blank"]::after,
a.external::after {
@extend .glyphicon;
content: "\e164";
margin-left: .5em;
margin-right: .25em;
}