Feature Request #4199

Add new function to Text helper

Added by Tomek Rychlik 9 months ago. Updated 9 months ago.

Status:Closed Start date:08/12/2011
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:- % Done:

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Category:Core
Target version:v3.3.0
Resolution:wontfix Points:1

Description

Please add new function to Text helper class.

Its very helpful to convert special chars to XHTML tags in text (the same way as this editor do).

For example:

This feature is **very** helpful

To:

This featerue is <strong>very</strong> helpful

User should specify chars and tags to replace.

History

#1
Updated by Dmitry T. 9 months ago

IMO, what you want is far more than just a function. It's a full library and should be at least a module, or even better to use something like http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/

#2
Updated by Tomek Rychlik 9 months ago

Yes it could be a large module, but i think about basic functionality (just replace special chars with tags using preg_replace)

$replace = array
(
   '**' => 'strong',
   '__' => 'i,
)

echo Text::markdown($text, $replace);

It would work well with Text::auto_p

#3
Updated by Steven G. 9 months ago

Against.

This is like kohana supporting code highlighting and other such features. Long story short, it goes beyond what a Kohana (as a framework) should do. Creating your own markup language is also bad practice. It's bad enough there is no one true markdown language as-is, there's no need to pollute the web further.

I'm not quite sure, but I believe I read at one point about some (stupid) licensing issues regarding markdown syntax. That might be a problem as well.

#4
Updated by Jeremy Bush 9 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Target version set to v3.3.0
  • Resolution set to wontfix

Use markdown.

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