Markdownify

Developed and maintained by David Eads (davideads@gmail.com) for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the E-Center Project.

This module provides the Markdownify library (included) to Drupal via API functions and URLs that convert HTTP POSTed input for users with the correct permissions and output JSON, appropriate for AJAX callbacks.

Markdownify is a PHP library that converts HTML to Markdown and Markdown Extra. Markdownify is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) & is distributed with this package for convenience.

Markdownify module is licensed under the Fermitools license (see LICENSE.txt).

Reference

Permissions

Users must have the access markdownify permission to convert text, and may only access conversion when markdownify_on() is invoked (see below).

Users with the markdownify any text permission may POST arbitrary input to the Markdown converters. Grant with care! This permission could easily allow remote users to use your site to return arbitrary, potentially unsafe data payloads.

WYSIWYG Integration

If WYISWYG module is installed, this module provides a TinyMCE plugin that uses Markdownify's AJAX callbacks to use TinyMCE as a Markdown editor. To use, enable on a WYISWYG module profile using a text format with Markdown as the first filter.

API functions

markdownify_include()

Include the Markdownify libraries. Call if you need access to the Markdownify and Markdownify_Extra APIs.

markdownify_on()

Turn on Markdownify. Sets a token that is used for access checking in the callback functions. Call when using Markdownify on a content editing form.

AJAX callback URLs

/markdown2html

The 'input' element of the POST will be converted from Markdown to HTML and returned as the 'output' element of a JSON object.

/html2markdown

The 'input' element of the POST will be converted from HTML to Markdown and returned as the 'output' element of a JSON object.

/admin/markdownify/test

Tests, including this README file.

Hooks

This module defines these _alter hooks which take an input string as their parameter:

• markdownify_markdown2html_preprocess_alter
• markdownify_markdown2html_postprocess_alter
• markdownify_html2markdown_preprocess_alter
• markdownify_html2markdown_postprocess_alter

Use the alter hooks to manipulate data as it is processed by Markdownify. For example, use mymodule_markdownify_html2markdown_postprocess_alter to remove extraneous tags added by TinyMCE when converting TinyMCE source to Markdown.