This guide to get you started with Zend_Markup uses the BBCode parser and HTML renderer. The priciples discussed can be adapted to other parsers and renderers. We will first instantiate a Zend_Markup_Renderer_Html object using the Zend_Markup::factory() method. This will also create a Zend_Markup_Parser_Bbcode object which will be added to the renderer object. Afther that, we will use the render() method to convert a piece of BBCode to HTML. render('[b]bold text[/b] and [i]cursive text[/i]'); // Outputs: 'bold text and cursive text' ]]> This time, we will do exactly the same as above, but with more complicated BBCode markup. render($input); /* Should output something like:

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*/ ]]> Besides simply parsing and rendering markup such as BBCode, Zend_Markup is also able to handle incorrect input. Most BBCode processors are not able to render all input to XHTML valid output. Zend_Markup corrects input that is nested incorrectly, and also closes tags that were not closed: render('some [i]wrong [b]sample [/i] text'); // Note that the '[b]' tag is never closed, and is also incorrectly // nested; regardless, Zend_Markup renders it correctly as: // some wrong sample text ]]>