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The AlternateSyntaxParser Extension is a MediaWiki extension which conditionally parses article text with an alternate syntax engine. This can be done either at the document level or site-wide.

It is released under The MIT License.

Contents 1 Compatibility 2 Installation 2.1 Markdown 2.2 Textile 3 Usage 4 Comments

Compatibility

This extension requires:

• MediaWiki 1.6.x, 1.9.x, 1.10.x or higher
• PHP 4.x, 5.x or higer

Installation

1. Create a folder in your $IP/extensions directory called AlternateSyntaxParser.

   Note: $IP is your MediaWiki install dir.

2. Download AlternateSyntaxParser, and be sure to rename the downloaded file to AlternateSyntaxParser.php.
3. Drop the downloaded script into $IP/extensions/AlternateSyntaxParser
4. Enable the extension by adding this line to your LocalSettings.php:

   require_once('extensions/AlternateSyntaxParser/AlternateSyntaxParser.php');

5. Download the required libraries for chosen alternate syntaxes as specified below

   Note: If you don't download the libraries, the extension won't work!

Markdown

To support Markdown syntax:

1. Download Michel Fortin's PHP Markdown or PHP Markdown Extra library:

   http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/

2. Extract the file 'markdown.php' from the zip archive.
3. Drop markdown.php into $IP/extensions/AlternateSyntaxParser/

Textile

To support Textile Syntax:

1. Download Jim Riggs' TextilePHP library:

   http://jimandlissa.com/project/textilephp

2. Extract the file 'Textile.php' from the downloaded archive.
3. Drop Textile.php into $IP/extensions/AlternateSyntaxParser/

Usage

To use an alternate syntax in a page, put the following at the top of the page:

#MARKUP language

Where 'language' is the markup language - examples include 'markdown' and 'textile'.

Alternatively, you may specify a site-wide default alternate language by setting the $wgAlternateSyntaxParserLanguage variable in your LocalSettings.php. For examlpe, to make Markdown the default parsing syntax, you'd add:

$wgAlternateSyntaxParserLanguage = 'markdown';

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