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Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently

From	"James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently
Date	2013-11-22 12:48 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Having looked at Markdown and Smarty that people suggested it might be 
better if I bite the bullet and develop my own markup language. It would 
then be easier both to limit what it allows and also to add features as 
needed. I have been running some syntax tests and it seems quite easy to do 
and fast to process even though the markup is currently a little cumbersome 
to write.

"Arno Welzel" <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote in message 
news:528F32EE.5030800@arnowelzel.de...
> Am 21.11.2013 19:30, schrieb James Harris:
>
>> I am looking for a way to mark up text in a way that PHP would be able to
>> efficiently and quickly convert to HTML.
>
> What kind of text?

What are the options? I was just thinking about normal text of the kind that 
would appear on a web page.

> What kind of markup is needed?

Quite a lot. Things like these:
* bold, italic
* links to local pages and remote URLs
* images, code
* headers, lists, line breaks
* tables
* other things will likely be required but are not defined yet

For completeness, I should add that the markup would also need to pull in 
similarly marked up text from other files and to populate tables from 
databases.

James

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PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-21 18:30 +0000
  Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-21 18:39 +0000
    Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-21 18:57 +0000
      Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-21 20:10 +0100
        Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-21 19:29 +0000
          Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-21 21:18 +0100
  Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2013-11-21 19:03 +0000
  Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-21 21:27 +0100
  Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-11-22 11:33 +0100
    Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 12:48 +0000
      Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-11-22 08:53 -0500
        Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-23 06:21 +0000
          Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-11-23 06:59 -0500
          Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-23 13:12 +0100
      Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-11-22 16:42 +0100
        Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-23 16:38 +0000
          Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2013-11-23 13:24 -0800
            Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-23 22:07 +0000
          Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-11-24 17:09 +0100
            Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 18:11 +0000
              Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-11-24 23:18 +0100
                Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-24 23:44 +0000
                Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2013-11-25 08:11 +0100
  Re: PHP functions to convert markup efficiently "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-11-23 19:21 +0000

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