This is the documentation for the unsupported version 1.6. Please consider upgrading your code to the latest stable version
Basic Usage
The CommonMarkConverter class provides a simple wrapper for converting Markdown to HTML:
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use League\CommonMark\CommonMarkConverter;
$converter = new CommonMarkConverter();
echo $converter->convertToHtml('# Hello World!');
// <h1>Hello World!</h1>
Or if you want GitHub-Flavored Markdown:
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use League\CommonMark\GithubFlavoredMarkdownConverter;
$converter = new GithubFlavoredMarkdownConverter();
echo $converter->convertToHtml('# Hello World!');
// <h1>Hello World!</h1>
Or you can use the generic MarkdownConverter class to customize the environment with whatever extensions you wish to use:
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use League\CommonMark\Environment;
use League\CommonMark\Extension\InlinesOnly\InlinesOnlyExtension;
use League\CommonMark\Extension\SmartPunct\SmartPunctExtension;
use League\CommonMark\Extension\Strikethrough\StrikethroughExtension;
use League\CommonMark\MarkdownConverter;
$environment = new Environment();
$environment->addExtension(new InlinesOnlyExtension());
$environment->addExtension(new SmartPunctExtension());
$environment->addExtension(new StrikethroughExtension());
$converter = new MarkdownConverter($environment);
echo $converter->convertToHtml('**Hello World!**');
// <p><strong>Hello World!</strong></p>
Important: See the security section for important details on avoiding security misconfigurations.
Additional customization is also possible, and we have many handy extensions to enable additional syntax and features.
Supported Character Encodings
Please note that only UTF-8 and ASCII encodings are supported. If your Markdown uses a different encoding please convert it to UTF-8 before running it through this library.