Ciconia Markdown Parser ServiceProvider & Facade for Laravel 4 Ciconia offers Github Flavored Markdown as extension and i really like to have "proper" linebreaks ;) Ciconia: https://github.com/kzykhys/Ciconia Laravel: https://github.com/laravel/laravel Github Flavored Markdown: https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown

CiconiaFacade.php

<?php

namespace dkesberg\Facades;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;

class CiconiaFacade extends Facade {

    protected static function getFacadeAccessor()
    {
        return 'markdown';
    }
}

CiconiaServiceProvider.php

<?php
/**
 * only uses the gfm whitespace extension for linebreaks, check out the ciconia repository for more options
 */

namespace dkesberg\ServiceProvider;

use Ciconia\Ciconia;
use Ciconia\Extension\Gfm;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class MarkdownServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {

    public function register()
    {
        $this->app->bind('markdown', function()
        {
            $ciconia = new Ciconia();
            $ciconia->addExtension(new Gfm\WhiteSpaceExtension());
            
            return $ciconia;
        });
    }
}

example.blade.php

@extends('layouts.master')

@section('content')
<div>
  {{ Markdown::render($content) }}
</div>
@stop

Could you give me a bit information how to install?