John Cox has a new post today concerning a tool that can help web developers create more consistency and user-friendly-ness for their site look and feel, all with PHP.

PHP Markdown Extra has been released. I have never used the syntax, but I use the paragraph formatting in several places. This is less restrictive on the block level events. Worth a look for anyone that has lost a bit of sanity dealing with XHTML and line break generation with block level events.

From the PHP Markdown site:

PHP Markdown is a port to PHP of the Markdown program written by John Gruber. "Markdown" is two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a software tool that converts the plain text markup to HTML for publishing on the web. The Markdown syntax allows you to write text naturally and format it without using HTML tags.

PHP Markdown Extra builds on the basic functionality of PHP Markdown, but adds features like Inline HTML, Tables, Definition Lists, and Emphasis. I can definitely see this coming in handy with something like a forum or other largely user-content application (like, say, a blog maybe...).