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

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.

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: