Introduction | Zend_Markup Programmer's Reference Guide | Zend_Markup Parsers
# Getting Started With Zend_Markup This guide to get you started with Zend_Markup uses the BBCode parser and HTML renderer. The priciples discussed can be adapted to other parsers and renderers. Example #1 Basic Zend_Markup Usage We will first instantiate a Zend_Markup_Renderer_Html object using the Zend_Markup::factory() method. This will also create a Zend_Markup_Parser_Bbcode object which will be added to the renderer object. Afther that, we will use the render() method to convert a piece of BBCode to HTML. // Creates instance of Zend_Markup_Renderer_Html, // with Zend_Markup_Parser_BbCode as its parser $bbcode = Zend_Markup::factory('Bbcode'); echo $bbcode->render('[b]bold text[/b] and [i]cursive text[/i]'); // Outputs: '<strong>bold text</strong> and <em>cursive text</em>' Example #2 A more complicated example of Zend_Markup This time, we will do exactly the same as above, but with more complicated BBCode markup. $bbcode = Zend_Markup::factory('Bbcode'); $input = <<<EOT [list] [*]Zend Framework [*]Foobar [/list] EOT; echo $bbcode->render($input); /* Should output something like: <ul> <li>Zend Framework</li> <li>Foobar</li> </ul> */ Example #3 Processing incorrect input Besides simply parsing and rendering markup such as BBCode, Zend_Markup is also able to handle incorrect input. Most BBCode processors are not able to render all input to XHTML valid output. Zend_Markup corrects input that is nested incorrectly, and also closes tags that were not closed: $bbcode = Zend_Markup::factory('Bbcode'); echo $bbcode->render('some [i]wrong [b]sample [/i] text'); // Note that the '[b]' tag is never closed, and is also incorrectly // nested; regardless, Zend_Markup renders it correctly as: // some <em>wrong <strong>sample </strong></em><strong> text</strong>
Introduction | Zend_Markup Programmer's Reference Guide | Zend_Markup Parsers