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Markdown to HTML - Full Document, Custom Theme with Code Syntax Highlighting

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Demonstrates how to convert a complete Markdown document to HTML using your own custom theme with Cloudfare Prism's code syntax highlighting.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$success = 0;

$options = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();

# Instead of specifying a "theme", provide values for the HTML document parts.

$sbHead = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$bCrlf = 1;
$sbHead->AppendLine("<head>",$bCrlf);
$sbHead->AppendLine("<style>",$bCrlf);
$sbHead->AppendLine("body {",$bCrlf);
$sbHead->AppendLine("  font-family: \"Segoe UI\", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;",$bCrlf);
$sbHead->AppendLine("}",$bCrlf);
$sbHead->AppendLine("</style>",$bCrlf);
$sbHead->AppendLine("</head>",$bCrlf);

# Each HTML section can be set individually.
$options->UpdateString("docType","<!DOCTYPE html>");
$options->UpdateString("rootElement","<html lang=\"en\">");
$options->UpdateString("head",$sbHead->getAsString());
$options->UpdateString("bodyStart","<body>\n<div id=\"content\"");
$options->UpdateString("bodyEnd","</div>\n</body>");

# We can add extra content to the bottom of the HTML head and body sections like this:
# Here we are using the Cloudfare Prism "coy" theme for code syntax higlighting.
$options->UpdateString("extraHead","<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/themes/prism-coy.min.css\" />");
$options->UpdateString("extraBody","<script src=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/prism.min.js\"></script><script src =\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/plugins/autoloader/prism-autoloader.min.js\"></script>");

$sbMarkdown = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sbHtml = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();

$success = $sbMarkdown->LoadFile("qa_data/markdown/test1.md","utf-8");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $sbMarkdown->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$sbMarkdown->MarkdownToHtml($options,$sbHtml);
$sbHtml->ToCRLF();

print $sbHtml->getAsString() . "\r\n";

# The sample markdown input for this example is identical to the one at Markdown to HTML - Full Document, Raw, where you can view it.

# Sample HTML output as viewed in a browser:

# image