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chris

21 Jun, 2013 01:58 AM

I currently use the "Markdown on Save Improved" plugin for composing wordpress posts...I like that it doesn't render on the fly nor does it clobber the markdown source.

I know it uses Michael Fortin's Markdown Extras PHP script to do the lifting...is there a PHP script for Multimarkdown that could work similarly? I dream of being able to access the extra features of MMD (in particular the table extensions) in wordpress itself...

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by fletcher on 21 Jun, 2013 05:17 PM

   

   Chris,

   Thanks for writing and for your interest in MMD.

   To my knowledge, there is no PHP clone of MultiMarkdown. The table functions in particular were actually originated in PHP Markdown Extra, with a few changes by me.

   Since MMD is written in C, and is designed to be very portable, it should compile on virtually any machine. So you should be able to use it as an external system call from almost any "real" language (presumably CSS couldn't do it, but I would think PHP could.) Someone is in the midst of creating a Perl XS module that uses the C code to embed MMD in the Perl code, for example. You don't have to do something that complex, but the equivalent of "$output = system("multimarkdown file.txt");" could be done.

   Fletcher

   On Jun 20, 2013, at 10:00 PM, "chris" <[email blocked]> wrote:

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