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johnnymatthews
johnnymatthews

Reputation: 1041

Using Parsedown in Laravel 5.6.3

I'm trying to use Parsedown in Laravel 5.6.3. As far as I can tell, Composer packages are autoloaded into Laravel, so I should be able to do something like this:

{{ Parsedown('## Hello World!') }}

But when I try that, I get:

Call to undefined function Parsedown().

So I tried to create an object of Parsedown with the following: 

{{ $parsedown = new \Parsedown() }}

But then I get

htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given

At first I thought it was something to do with Laravel's autoloader, but when I request something from vlucas/dotenv I get the results I expect:

<p>{{ getenv('APP_NAME') }}</p> outputs Laravel.

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I can't find anything in the Laravel docs to help me out either.

Edit

The answer by @AlexeyMezenin is correct, and it answers my original question. However it did not allow my markdown to be rendered. The following two lines are correct and allow markdown to be rendered:

@php($parsedown = new Parsedown())
<?= $parsedown->text('Hello _Parsedown_!'); ?>

It seems that the blade templating engine is having issues with echoing out parsedown. This edit has been added to help other users having the same problem as myself.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2442

Answers (2)

Nico Haase
Nico Haase

Reputation: 12126

Have you installed parsedown/laravel using composer? That should solve your problem, as given in the documentation at https://github.com/parsedown/laravel

Upvotes: 1

Alexey Mezenin
Alexey Mezenin

Reputation: 163898

{{}} will be rendered to echo by Blade engine. So, so change this:

{{ $parsedown = new \Parsedown() }}

To:

@php($parsedown = new \Parsedown())

Or:

@php
    $parsedown = new \Parsedown();
@endphp

Or:

<?php $parsedown = new \Parsedown(); ?>

Upvotes: 4

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