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Laravel integration for Birdcar Flavored Markdown (BFM).

Provides a configured MarkdownConverter singleton, Str macros, a Blade directive for loading styles, and publishable config/assets.

Requirements

PHP 8.2+
Laravel 10, 11, or 12
birdcar/markdown-php (pulled in automatically)

Installation

composer require birdcar/markdown-laravel

The service provider is auto-discovered.

Usage

String macros

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

// Full BFM render (block-level HTML)
Str::bfm('# Hello **world**');

// Inline render (strips wrapping <p> tag)
Str::inlineBfm('Hello **world**');

Blade directive

Include the BFM stylesheet in your layout:

<head>
    @bfmStyles
</head>

This outputs a <link> tag if you've published the CSS to public/vendor/bfm/, otherwise it inlines the stylesheet in a <style> tag.

Configuration

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=bfm-config

This creates config/bfm.php:

return [
    // Output format: 'html', 'email', or 'plain'
    'profile' => 'html',

    // Custom resolvers (resolved from the container)
    'resolvers' => [
        'mention' => null, // class implementing MentionResolverInterface
        'embed'   => null, // class implementing EmbedResolverInterface
    ],
];

Resolvers

To handle @mentions or !embed[...] syntax, create classes implementing MentionResolverInterface or EmbedResolverInterface from the core package and reference them in config. They're resolved from the container, so you can inject dependencies.

Publishing assets

# Publish the CSS to public/vendor/bfm/
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=bfm-assets

Publishing is optional. Without it, @bfmStyles inlines the CSS directly. Publishing is better for production since the browser can cache the external stylesheet.

Gotchas

All BFM extensions are always enabled. There are no config toggles for individual extensions (callouts, tasks, mentions, embeds).
Str::bfm() is a dynamic macro. PHPStan won't recognize it statically. If you use PHPStan, add an ignore for calls to Str::bfm() and Str::inlineBfm().
@bfmStyles is evaluated at runtime, not at Blade compile time. No need to run view:clear after publishing assets.

Development

cd packages/laravel
composer install
composer test      # Run tests
composer analyse   # Run PHPStan (level 8)

Tests use Orchestra Testbench. The composer.json includes a path repository pointing to ../../ so it can resolve the core birdcar/markdown-php package from the monorepo root.

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