A quick MediaWiki hook for using a Markdown parser

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MediaWiki's sweet, but Markdown's the "new hotness (steez)". .... yea, anyway, so this is a quick piece of code for hooking MediaWiki's parser to use Michael Fortin's PHP Markdown Extra library

1. Create a folder in your "$IP/extensions" directory called "MarkdownExtraParser"
   • Note: $IP is your MediaWiki install directory
   • You should have something like this: $IP/extensions/MarkdownExtraParser/
2. Clone this repo into your new directory (or download the zip)
3. Download Michael Fortin's PHP Markdown Extra library
4. Extract and copy the "markdown.php" file into your new "$IP/extensions/MarkdownExtraParser/" directory
5. Enable the extension by adding the following line to your "LocalSettings.php" file:

require_once( "$IP/extensions/MarkdownExtraParser/MarkdownExtraParser.php" );

Before "requiring" the extension, you can set an array variable to hold some configuration settings for MarkdownExtraParser, like so:

// MarkdownExtraParser
$MarkdownExtraParserOptions = array(
	'use_raw_html' => true,
);

• 'use_raw_html' - Allows for more advanced markdown-to-HTML conversions, such as image tags, etc.