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willvincent/laravel-markdown
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Markdown including typographic prettification based on 'SmartyPants'

11PHP

Since Jun 24Pushed 10y agoCompare

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Laravel Markdown
================

[](#laravel-markdown)

Provides a markdown parser facade, with optional typographical prettification using [SmartyPants](https://github.com/michelf/php-smartypants) to Laravel 5.x.

### Installation

[](#installation)

Download the package with composer:

```
composer require willvincent/laravel-markdown

```

**NOTE:** You may need to add the following to your composer.json to allow dev packages to be installed:

```
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"prefer-stable": true

```

Update your config/app.php file to reference the provider and facade:

```
'providers' => [
    // ...
    willvincent\LaravelMarkdown\LaravelMarkdownServiceProvider::class,
],

```

```
'aliases' => [
    // ...

    'Markdown' => willvincent\LaravelMarkdown\Facades\LaravelMarkdownFacade::class,
],

```

Run `php artisan vendor:publish` to copy the default config file into your app's config directory; `config/markdown.php`

### Usage

[](#usage)

Usage is simple, pass markdown you want to parse (and optionally prettify based on your config settings) to the `parse()` method of the Markdown facade.

```
// Assuming $text is a variable populated with markdown...
Markdown::parse($text)

```

Presumably most people will use this to display data loaded from their database within a blade template;

```
  {!! Markdown::parse($text) !!}

```

###  Health Score

19

—

LowBetter than 9% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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