Top 15 PHP Markdown Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Introduction

This is a library package that includes the PHP Markdown parser and its sibling PHP Markdown Extra with additional features. Originally it was a port to PHP of the Markdown tool written by John Gruber.

“Markdown” is two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a software tool that converts the plain text markup to HTML for publishing on the web.

The Markdown syntax allows you to write text naturally and format it without using HTML tags. More importantly: in Markdown format, your text stays enjoyable to read for a human being, and this is true enough that it makes a Markdown document publishable as-is, as plain text. If you are using text-formatted email, you already know some part of the syntax.

1. Docutils

Docutils Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, man-pages, open-document or XML. It includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language._Python - Docutils_The main distribution of reStructuredText is the Python Docutils package. It contains several......

2. Markdown

Markdown Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts......

3. txt2tags

txt2tags It reads a text file with minimal markup such as **bold** and //italic// and converts it to the following formats (among others): - HTML - XHTML - SGML - LaTeX - Spip - Man page - Wikipedia / MediaWiki......

4. React Rich Text Editor

React Rich Text Editor React Rich Text Editor is a UI component built completely in React that is meant to be a full-featured textarea replacement. It's based on the excellent, open source Draft.js from Facebook which is performant and production-tested.FEATURESPure React and fully declarativeSupported formats: HTML and Markdown (coming soon: extensible support......

5. PHP Fat-Free Framework

PHP Fat-Free Framework FAT-FREE is a powerful yet lightweight PHP 5.3+ Web development framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust applications - fast!Condensed in a single 55KB file, the frameworks simple domain-specific language gives you access to Fat-Frees all-purpose template engine, flexible cache, automatic spam protection, integrated unit testing tools, and......

6. SourceFormatX

SourceFormatX SourceFormatX Source Code Formatter is professional multi -language source code formatter, source code beautifier, pretty printer and code indenter for C, C++, Java, C#, D, PHP, ASP, JSP, Delphi (Pascal), VB (Visual Basic), VB.NET, VBScript, JavaScript (JScript), 80x86 Assembly (x86 Asm), 8051 Assembly (ASM51), HTML, XHTML, XML, HTML Components (HTC),......

7. ShiftEdit

ShiftEdit ShiftEdit is a free web based IDE.Features: Syntax highlighting, Integrated (S)FTP, Tabs, Find/Replace, Revision history, bookmarks. "The web-based IDE is one of the final frontiers of apps ported to the web. I would like to be able to develop from any computer or operating system and have the same experience......

8. PHP Report Maker

PHP Report Maker PHP Report Maker is a powerful reporting tool that can generate dynamic PHP Web reports from MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server database. You can instantly create live detail and summary reports or crosstabs reports for your Websites. Flash charting (column, bar, line, pie, area, doughnut, funnel, multi-series,......

9. Monod

Monod Monod is a (relatively) secure and offline-first Markdown editor built at TailorDev in order to learn React (and a bunch of JavaScript tools/libraries).......

10. Aubrey's gVim

Aubrey's gVim Aubrey’s gVim is, well, Aubrey's gVim! The project arose out the his personal desire to use Vim as my HTML, CSS, PHP & Javascript editor.It’s an installable application for Windows, and it, litterally, is his gVim installation…for you to use. The goal of the project is to perfect Vim to......

11. Araneae

Araneae Free text editor software. Supports XHTML, CSS, PHP and more.......

12. Smaller

Smaller Smaller is a powerful HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript compressor on Mac OS X, definitely a must have for every Mac based web developers.......

13. Hammer

Hammer Hammer is a great way of building out HTML websites. With features including HTML includes, SASS and Coffeescript parsing and Clever Paths, Hammer is an indispensable tool!Every time Hammer finishes compiling your project, it automatically refreshes your browser to show your latest changes and keep things up-to-date.Hammer knows all about......

14. Lime Text

Lime Text Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in go. If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge. We hope you are up to it.The Frontend is written in what ever......

15. Texy!

Texy! Texy! is a lightweight markup language as well as converter of this format to XHTML, in a form of a library written in the PHP scripting language. It allows the user to write structured documents without knowledge or using of HTML language. Users write documents in human-readable text format and......