A brief overview of the league/commonmark project for PHP and why it's so awesome!

1. league/commonmark
Well-written, super-configurable Markdown parser
based on the CommonMark spec

2. WHAT IS COMMONMARK?
A strongly specified, highly
compatible Markdown standard.
Written by people from Github,
StackOverflow, Reddit, and others.

3. WHY IS IT NEEDED?
*foo bar baz*

4. WHY IS IT NEEDED?
*foo *bar* baz*

5. WHY IS IT NEEDED?
*foo *bar* baz*
<p><em>foo <em>bar</em> baz</em></p>
*foo *bar* baz*
<p><em>foo </em>bar<em> baz</em></p>
*foo *bar* baz*
<p><em>foo *bar</em> baz*</p>

6. FEATURES
Supports the full CommonMark standard
Object-oriented, well-abstracted
Highly extensible
Markdown parsed into AST
AST can be manipulated before rendering
to HTML
Full UTF-8 compatibility

7. INTEGRATES WITH
 Symfony
 Twig
 Sculpin
 Laravel 4 & 5
 Zend Framework 2
 CakePHP 3
 Build your own!
https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark#integrations

8. CUSTOMIZATION
EXAMPLE

12. http://commonmark.org
http://commonmark.thephpleague.com
http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2