pixelbrackets/markdown-mini-page

Quickly convert Markdown into a valid HTML5 page with minimal styles

1.1.0 2026-02-04 09:13 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• erusev/parsedown: ^1.7 || ^2.0
• pixelbrackets/html5-mini-template: ^2.1

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.0

GPL-2.0-or-later

README

Quickly convert Markdown into a valid HTML5 page with minimal styles.

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Vision

Most Markdown packages only convert a given Markdown snippet to HTML. They don't wrap the surrounding page markup - the doctype, title, head, and body tags are missing. They also don't include stylesheets. As a developer you soon find yourself gluing different packages and self-made code together for a task which should be straightforward: Just generate a complete page from this Markdown.

This package does exactly that: pass in a Markdown string, get back a complete, styled HTML5 page ready to serve or save.

Common use cases:

• README rendering - Display repository README files as styled HTML pages
• Documentation pages - Convert Markdown docs into viewable web pages
• Changelog preview - Render CHANGELOG.md as a browsable page
• Status pages - Generate "All Systems Operational" or maintenance notices
• Build artifacts - Create HTML reports, release notes, or coverage summaries
• Note viewer - Quick preview of personal Markdown notes or wiki pages

Highlights:

• Minimal implementation - Three lines of code are enough → 🤗 thanks to pixelbrackets/html5-mini-template
• GitHub Flavored Markdown conversion → 🤗 thanks to erusev/parsedown
• GitHub Markdown stylesheet include → 🤗 thanks to pixelbrackets/gfm-stylesheet

See »Usage« for some examples.

The package follows the KISS principle.

Quick Start

$markup = (new \Pixelbrackets\MarkdownMiniPage\MarkdownMiniPage())
    ->setContent('Hello _Markdown_ World!')
    ->getMarkup();
echo $markup;

Requirements

• PHP

Installation

Packagist Entry https://packagist.org/packages/pixelbrackets/markdown-mini-page/

Source

https://gitlab.com/pixelbrackets/markdown-mini-page/

Mirror https://github.com/pixelbrackets/markdown-mini-page/ (Issues & Pull Requests mirrored to GitLab)

Demo

🚀 https://markdown-mini-page.app.pixelbrackets.de/

⌨️ php tests/demo.php.

Usage

This package supports all options of the pixelbrackets/html5-mini-template package. For example setStylesheet() to overwrite the default stylesheet.

• setContent(string $markdown) - Set Markdown content (converted to HTML on output)
• setTitle(string $title) - Set document title (auto-detected from first h1 if not set)
• setStylesheet(string $stylesheet) - Stylesheet keyword or URL (default: gfm)
  • Available stylesheet selectors (eg.barebone will link the barebone stylesheet): barebone, bootstrap, gfm (default), milligram, minicss, mui, mvp, picnic, skeleton
• setStylesheetMode(string $mode) - Html5MiniTemplate::STYLE_LINK (default) or STYLE_INLINE
• setAdditionalMetadata(string $html) - Add tags to document head (meta, link, etc.)
• getMarkup(): string - Returns complete HTML5 document

All methods, except for getMarkup(), may be chained together.

1. Convert a message written in Markdown style into HTML, wrap into a HTML5 document and link a minimal stylesheet

   $markup = (new \Pixelbrackets\MarkdownMiniPage\MarkdownMiniPage())
       ->setContent('Hello _Markdown_ World!')
       ->getMarkup();
   echo $markup;
   

2. Convert & wrap a message, set your own stylesheet URL and title

   $template = (new \Pixelbrackets\MarkdownMiniPage\MarkdownMiniPage())
       ->setStylesheet('/assets/styles.css')
       ->setTitle('Index')
       ->setContent('# Status' . PHP_EOL . 'All Systems Operational');
   echo $template->getMarkup();
   

3. Embed stylesheet inline instead of linking (useful for single-file HTML output)

   use Pixelbrackets\Html5MiniTemplate\Html5MiniTemplate;
   
   $template = (new \Pixelbrackets\MarkdownMiniPage\MarkdownMiniPage())
       ->setStylesheetMode(Html5MiniTemplate::STYLE_INLINE)
       ->setContent('# Standalone Page');
   echo $template->getMarkup();
   

4. Add custom metadata to the document head (e.g., Open Graph tags, favicon)

   $template = (new \Pixelbrackets\MarkdownMiniPage\MarkdownMiniPage())
       ->setAdditionalMetadata('<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico">')
       ->setContent('# Page with Favicon');
   echo $template->getMarkup();
   

License

GNU General Public License version 2 or later

The GNU General Public License can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

Author

Dan Kleine ([e-mail] / @pixelbrackets)

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

Contribution

This script is Open Source, so please use, share, patch, extend or fork it.

Contributions are welcome!

Feedback

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