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webuni/front-matter
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Front matter parser and dumper for PHP

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Front Matter
============

[](#front-matter)

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The most universal Front matter (yaml, json, neon, toml) parser and dumper for PHP. Front matter allows page-specific variables to be included at the top of a page.

Features
--------

[](#features)

This library can parse all form of front matter:

YAML (Neon)TOMLJsonTwigPug```
---
foo: bar
---

# Section

Text
```

```
+++
foo = bar
+++

# Section

Text
```

```
{
  "foo": "bar"
}

# Section

Text
```

```
{#---
foo: bar
---#}

Section

{{ foo }}
```

```
--
  foo: bar

h1 Section

p= foo
```

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

This library can be installed via Composer:

```
composer require webuni/front-matter

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Automatic front matter detection and parsing

[](#automatic-front-matter-detection-and-parsing)

The following code will automatically detect the above front matter types:

```