some samples of what makrell can do.

to test snippets locally, use

include 'makrell.inc.php';

$m = new Makrell;

$result = $m->parse(<<<EOS
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EOS
);

echo $result;

"hello, world" of makrell

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sayhello {{ hello, user! }}

- hello, makrell!
- sayhello

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shorten complex html

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<fancybox> {{ 
	<div class="nifty">
	<b class="rtop"><b class="r1"></b><b class="r2"></b><b class="r3"></b><b class="r4"></b></b>
	<div>
}}
</fancybox> {{ 
	</div>
	<b class="rbottom"><b class="r4"></b><b class="r3"></b><b class="r2"></b><b class="r1"></b></b>
	</div>
}}

<fancybox>a nice fancy box</fancybox>
foo, bar
<fancybox>look, I've got another one!</fancybox>

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parameteric macros

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* @title: @text. {{
	<div style="background: silver">
		<h3>@title</h3>
		<p>@text</p>
	</div>
}}

* about this example : illustrates how makrell can be used to create html from the plain text.
* another list element: lets put some text in here.

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plaintext wiki-style markup

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### @text   {{ <h3>@text</h3> }}
## @text    {{ <h2>@text</h2> }}
# @text     {{ <h1>@text</h1> }}

*@text*     {{ <b>@text</b> }}
!@text!     {{ <i>@text</i> }}

[[[ @text ]]] {{ <pre>@text</pre> }}

# documentation
## debugging
### error messages

It's *extremely* important that you turn php !error reporting! on when debugging.

[[[ error_reporting(E_ALL); ]]]

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error_reporting(E_ALL);

shorten complex php

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{each @ary @var} {{ <?php foreach($@ary as $@var) { ?> }}

{/each} {{ <?php }  ?> }}

{@ary.@index} {{ <?php echo htmlspecialchars($@ary['@index']); ?> }}

{each customers cust}
	<p>{cust.first_name}</p>
	<p>{cust.last_name}</p>
{/each}

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typed variables

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(@var:id)     {{ <?php echo $@var; ?> }}
(@str:string) {{ <?php echo @str; ?> }}

The content in parenthesis will only be replaced if it is an identifier or a string:
(replace_this) and ("this") (but not this) or ( this ).

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custom types

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{{ type url http:\/\/[\w\/.?&#]+ }}

@text:alnum (@u:url) {{ <a href="@u">@text</a> }}

recommended websites: google (http://www.google.com) and yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)
<br>
recommended books: Design patterns (Gamma et al.), PoEAA (Fowler)

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assertions

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{{ type begin (?<=\n) }}

@:begin* @text {{ <li>@text</li> }}

* hello
* wonderful
* world

this * has no effect

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regular expressions

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/([\w.-]+)@([\w.-]+)/ {{ <a href="mailto:@1%40@2">@1 at @2</a> }}

contact me: streofrog@gmail.com

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