Can't convert markdown into HTML using StackExchanges's PageDown

Question

I have a method of storing straight markup code (generate by PageDown's editor) into a database. On another page, I grab the markup from the database and run it through the markdown converter, however I can't seem to get any output. This is my script:

<script type="text/javascript" src="include/Markdown.Converter.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="include/Markdown.Sanitizer.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="include/Markdown.Editor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        var converter = Markdown.Converter();
        $("#description-content").text(converter.makeHTML("<?php echo $description ?>"));
    });
</script>

PHP is echoing the pure markdown text from the database. When I visit the page, there isn't anything that shows up in the div. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: I'm not seeing any echo'ed text and if I simple add plaintext inside the .text() , I can see it.

Answer 1

Markdown.Converter is a constructor; you have to use

var converter = new Markdown.Converter();

Answer 2

A late answer but it might help new visitors

If you are fetchig result from database and echo through PHP i would prefer https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/classic/

Once you download the file, One can use it to convert the markdown text to html.

<?php 

$query_post = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM `posts` ...//your query
$row_post = mysqli_fetch_assoc($query_post);

$content = $row_post['Body'];
include("path-to/PHP-Markdown-Extra-1.2.8/markdown.php");
$text = <<<EOD

$content

EOD;
echo Markdown($text);
?>

This will display result like my answer here, or any other answer or question here in stackoverflow

cheers

Answer 3

Maybe you can try using Showdown instead of PageDown and see if you get any different results, just as a test: https://github.com/coreyti/showdown/blob/master/src/showdown.js Showdown is another Markdown js implementation.

The code you have there doesn't look to have anything wrong with it, the only edge case I can think of would be unescaped quotation marks in $description .