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tempest/markdown
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Fast and extensible Markdown in PHP

1.1.2(3w ago)341392[2 issues](https://github.com/tempestphp/markdown/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/tempestphp/markdown/pulls)1MITPHPPHP ^8.5

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Fast and extensible Markdown in PHP
===================================

[](#fast-and-extensible-markdown-in-php)

`tempest/markdown` is a Markdown parser for server-side Markdown parsing with PHP. It's designed to be fast and extensible, and has a bunch of extended Markdown features built-in like code highlighting, table and div support, responsive images, and frontmatter support.

Important

This package is still a work in progress! Feel free to open issues.

Quickstart
----------

[](#quickstart)

```
composer require tempest/markdown
```

Render Markdown like this:

```
use Tempest\Markdown\Markdown;

$markdown = new Markdown();

$parsed = $markdown->parse(file_get_contents('README.md'));

echo $parsed->frontmatter['title'];
echo $parsed->html;
```

You can read more in [the docs](https://tempestphp.com/3.x/packages/markdown).

Performance
-----------

[](#performance)

This package began as a challenge to make a more performant Markdown parser in pure PHP. The primary performance gain is from not relying on regex but instead using a simple lexer to tokenize Markdown files and convert them to HTML.

Benchmarks are included in this repo and can be run with `composer bench` after installing all dev dependencies. Here are the results on my machine for rendering the full Tempest docs:

PackageMemoryTime to parsetempest/markdown6.664mb10.906msleague/commonmark21.114mb56.993msmichelf/php-markdown7.343mb23.215mserusev/parsedown-extra8.485mb15.163ms

###  Health Score

50

—

FairBetter than 95% of packages

Maintenance93

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~6 days

Total

8

Last Release

25d ago

Major Versions

0.0.3 → 1.0.02026-06-04

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![brendt](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6905297?v=4)](https://github.com/brendt "brendt (126 commits)")[![xHeaven](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14284867?v=4)](https://github.com/xHeaven "xHeaven (4 commits)")[![raphaelstolt](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/48225?v=4)](https://github.com/raphaelstolt "raphaelstolt (1 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

### Embed Badge

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