Markdown instead of Simple HTML

zaneperry

I am like everyone else and want to use the button bar with Markdown just as vanillaforums.org community has. I installed button bar and notice it uses simple html. How do I make it use Markdown? I tried installing the Markdown plugin but the zip file only has one file and unzipping it to the plugin directory does nothing.

Also, the comment bar looks different and I see no options to change. I would like the bar instead of the curve buttons

Thank you!

x00

there is no need to install a plugin

just set

$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'Markdown';

x00

there is no need to install a plugin

just set

$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'Markdown';

Tim

The bar 'look' is done with CSS. You have full control over that.

zaneperry

awesome! Thanks

zaneperry

I added

$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'Markdown';

to /conf/config.php

but the buttons still insert html and the bottom still says

You can use Simple HTML in your post.

Did I do something wrong?

zaneperry

I can't figure this one out. Everything I have found online says that adding that line to /conf/config.php should set it to use Markdown.

zaneperry

Tim said:
The bar 'look' is done with CSS. You have full control over that.

It appears you guys have made some modifications to the plugin as well. The BarWrap div does not appear standard.

Guppeth

One thing I've noticed is that changing the input formatter in config.php only affects new discussions. To change an existing discussion to use markdown for new replies I had to play around with the database. Presumably this is to prevent the formatting of old discussions from breaking.

So if you create a new discussion it should use your setting, but if you reply or edit an existing discussion it should use the setting that was set when that discussion was created.

zaneperry

That is it! Thank you

x00

It is not that, it is to allow different formatting on different post, which is theoretically possible.

zaneperry

To change an existing discussion to use markdown for new replies I had to play around with the database.

What is the process to make a previous post Markdown instead of Simple HTML?

peregrine

use phpmyadmin and look in comment and discussion tables - see the format column and change accordingly.

zaneperry

Thx!

peregrine

e.g. - change the limit

UPDATE vanilla.GDN_Comment SET Format = 'Html' WHERE GDN_Comment.Format <> 'Html' LIMIT 1;

zaneperry

Not sure I follow that. I changed all of the Html's to Markdown appears to work.

Strange thing though. Clicking the image button does not create the correct markdown. It creates !()instead of the correct ![](). What could cause that?

peregrine

on mine it produces![]() . Did you modify the buttonbar? maybe download it again if you messed with it.
is this the only line with 'InputFormatter in your config file.

$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'Markdown';

zaneperry

I just deleted and reinstalled button bar. The button still posts !(). When I manually create ![]() it works as expected and displays the image. Can't figure what I did wrong to break it.

zaneperry

Yes, that is the only line with InputFormatter.
All other buttons work. Correction. Strike out does not do as this site does either with
<del>text</del>

The button on my site enters -text-

Testing this forum

Very strange. I created another question for this issue.