Silverstripe 3.0 MarkdownEditor Field

Requires Silverstripe 3.0 and a modern browser.

A simple, yet versatile field for nice textediting in the Silverstripe CMS. It's based on the ACE Editor.

Features:

• Suggest Link: [Testlink](: leads to an autosuggest-field.

• Suggest Image: ![Image Description](! opens an image-autosuggest field.

Getting the markdown editor field as a replacement for TinyMCE is easy:

public function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
		$md = new MarkdownField('Content', 'Content');
		$md->addExtraClass('stacked'); // Little different Layout in CMS
		$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main', $md);
		return $fields;
}

To use the Markdown-Formatted Content on the website, use e.g. instead of $Content $Content.Parse(MarkdownParser).

To get the same Syntax Highlighting as in the preview pane inside the Editor, include markdown/javascript/lib/highlight/src/highlight.pack.js to your template. Initialization could look like this (with jQuery):

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('pre code').each(function(i, e) {hljs.highlightBlock(e)});
});

More examples are on http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/description/ (All credit to them)

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Example for a Page

DataObject with an additional MarkdownText Field, that automatically caches parsed Markdown into the "Content" Field, so you can later add TinyMCE back.

class Page extends SiteTree {

	public static $db = array(
		"MarkdownText" => "Text"
	);	

	public function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
		
		$md = new MarkdownField('MarkdownText', 'Markdown Content');
		$md->addExtraClass('stacked'); // Little different Layout in CMS
	
		$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main', $md, 'Content');
		$fields->removeByName('Content');
		
		return $fields;
	}

	public function onBeforeWrite() {
		$Parser = new MarkdownParser($this->MarkdownText);
		$this->Content = $Parser->parse();
		parent::onBeforeWrite();
	}
}

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The Markdown Logo was made by Dustin Curtis. All other icons were made by Orman Clark Premium Pixels