Table of Contents generator for cebe/markdown

This package provides a PHP trait that to use with cebe's Markdown implementation. It allows to generate ToC from headlines in Makrdown documents and render them as lists. Note: the output is a rendered HTML, not Markdown!

Installation

Recommended installation is via composer by running:

composer require czukowski/markdown-toc "~1.0"

Alternatively you may add the following to the require section of your project's composer.json manually and then run composer update from the command line:

"czukowski/markdown-toc": "~1.0"

Usage

This package provides a TOCTrait that may be used in classes extending the cebe's original Markdown parsers.

For more information on how to extend the parser, refer to the original Readme file.

Generating Table of Contents can then be done by calling either of the two available public methods, depending on whether you are generating ToC from one or multiple files:

$markdown = new MyMarkdownWithTOC;

// Generate ToC from a single file:
$toc1 = $markdown->generateTableOfContents($source, 'index.md');

// Generate ToC from multiple files:
$toc2 = $markdown->generateTableOfContentsFromMultiple([
    [$intro, 'intro.md'],
    [$issues, 'issues.md'],
    [$reference, 'reference.md'],
]);

In the examples above, it's assumed that you've created a class named MyMarkdownWithTOC that uses TOCTrait.

Additional optional arguments are available that define the list type used and limit the headline levels that ToC is generated from.

Reference

• generateTableOfContents($markdown, $url, $listType = 'ul', $fromLevel = 1, $toLevel = 6):

  • @param string $markdown markdown source.
  • @param string $url source URL.
  • @param string $listType supported values: ul and ol.
  • @param integer $fromLevel use headlines starting with this level
  • @param integer $toLevel use headlines up to this level
  • @return string

• generateTableOfContentsFromMultiple($sources, $listType = 'ul', $fromLevel = 1, $toLevel = 6):

  • @param array $sources markdown sources and URLs.
  • @param string $listType supported values: ul and ol.
  • @param integer $fromLevel use headlines starting with this level
  • @param integer $toLevel use headlines up to this level
  • @return string

License

The distribution is permitted under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md for details.