Hacking at 0300

Continuing work on extending Parsedown.

See the actual code.

Adding block-level elements is not much different from adding inline elements. Kavanot.name originally used <footer> elements to indicate the source of a block quote:

<blockquote>
    Do or do not. There is no try.
  </blockquote>
  <footer>Yoda</footer>
</blockquote>

While marking blockquotes this way is now acceptable, for a long time it wasn't, and the recommended way was with <figure> and <figcaption>. KavanotParsedown uses the latter model:

<figure>
  <blockquote>
    Do or do not. There is no try.
  <figcaption>Yoda</figcaption>
<figure>

But I start with creating a <footer> and then modifying the DOM. So I want to have a block element that I will indicate with "--" at the start of the line.

function __construct(){
  $this->BlockTypes['-'][] = 'Source'; // only line needed to indicate a block level element
  // ... rest of the constructor
}

protected function blockSource($Line, $Block = null){
  if (preg_match('/^--[ ]*(.+)/', $Line['text'], $matches)) {
    return array(
      'element' => array(
        'name' => 'footer',
        'handler' => array(
          'function' => 'lineElements',
          'argument' => $matches[1],
          'destination' => 'elements'
        ),
        'attributes' => array('class' => 'source') // for styling, add a class automatically
      )
    );
  }
}

so

>Do or do not. There is no try.
--Yoda

becomes

<blockquote>
    Do or do not. There is no try.
  <footer class="source" >Yoda</footer>
</blockquote>

I realized that I might want to add an attribution to an image as well, without it being in a <blockquote>, as

<p>
  <img src=/blog/blogfiles/pdf/smiley.png alt="Smile!"/>
  <footer class="source" >Some file I found on the web</footer>
</p>

But as it stands,

[Smile!](/blog/blogfiles/pdf/smiley.png)
--Some file I found on the web

doesn't work; the <p> ends before the <footer> starts:

<p>
  <img src=/blog/blogfiles/pdf/smiley.png alt="Smile!"/>
</p>
<footer class="source" >Some file I found on the web</footer>

so we need to check that the previous block wasn't a paragraph. If it was, then parse this line and add it to the paragraph as an internal element:

protected function blockSource($Line, $Block = null){
  if (preg_match('/^--[ ]*(.+)/', $Line['text'], $matches)) {
    if ($Block && $Block['type'] === 'Paragraph'){
      $Block['element']['handler']['argument'] .= "\n".$this->element($this->blockSource($Line)['element']);
      return $Block;
    }
    return array(
      'element' => array(
        'name' => 'footer',
        'handler' => array(
          'function' => 'lineElements',
          'argument' => $matches[1],
          'destination' => 'elements'
        ),
        'attributes' => array('class' => 'source') // for styling, add a class automatically
      )
    );
  }
}

and now it works, except that the footer is a child of the <p> instead of the <blockquote>. We'll have to fix that.