How are you using the formatting?  As a custom field’s formatting or as tags in a template?

Alright, try this one out.  I’ve switched around the includes to require_onces and maybe that will help.  Also make sure you have the most up to date plugins from http://expressionengine.com/downloads/detailslist/.  Finally I had both markdown and smarty added as formatting options under the edit field > edit formatting link.  I will debug without this and see if that’s what’s causing your problem.

hi mark, seems to be working now cheers

the only thing I hadn’t done before was also add smarty as a formatting option.

Ahh, I see, well I’ve tried it both with/without Markdown and Smarty as formatting options and it worked for me.  Let me know if you’re still finding otherwise.  Thanks for the debugging help.

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From what i understand, i should add Markdown, Smartypants and Markypants, and then an extra field formatting option would appear.
I tried to do so, but nothing appears, and my plugin manager-page remains white ... (wich usually means there’s an error in a plugin ...)

Thanks.

Update: The error appears to be in MarkyPants ...

The only thing I can think of that would be erring in the file are these two lines:

require_once(“pi.markdown.php”);
require_once(“pi.smarty_pants.php”);

Are your plugins named like above?  Are they both also in the plugins folder?

Markdown is an extension, the rest are pi’s ...

Is there a complete package online, to get MarkyPants going?

Thanks.

You’ll want to get them off the plugin list from:

http://expressionengine.com/downloads/detailsmarkdown/
http://expressionengine.com/downloads/detailssmarty-pants/

Install both of those in your plugins folder and then install markypants and you should be good to go.

Great. I’ll give it a shot later on today.
If i understood correctly it appears as a field type, and would have the same functionality as standard xhtml-type PLUS the markdown-thingy?

Thanks!

It actually only has the markdown functionality.  Which shouldn’t be a problem because markdown replicates all the necessary XHTML formatting anyway.

What does the SmartyPants do then?
I thought it took care of the curly quotes etc.

Thanks anyway.

Yup Smarty does the quotes and markdown does the xhtml.

Just to get things straight: how / where should i tell the system to use markypants?
I can click the “edit list” with field formatting options, but there’s no ability to add a type ...

Thanks.

(Btw, the 3 names in the pi-manager are all “MarkyPants”, their URLS act as normal ... )

when you click ‘edit list’ markypants should show up there.  i would try deleting all three of the plugins and check the pi-manager.  do they still appear?  once they no longer show up in the pi-manager add them again.  It sounds like you have some legacy code in there somewhere.

Mark Huot - 13 November 2006 01:18 PM

when you click ‘edit list’ markypants should show up there.

Does this mean when i alter xhtml it changes everywhere (like a standard profile), or is this a ‘per field’ option?

Mark Huot - 13 November 2006 01:18 PM

i would try deleting all three of the plugins and check the pi-manager.  do they still appear?  once they no longer show up in the pi-manager add them again.  It sounds like you have some legacy code in there somewhere.

It works now, i tried your option, but then smartypants and markypants were both named markypants.
I deleted those two, uploaded smartypants, refreshed the pi-manager, and then uploaded markypants.
Now it looks as it should.

About the MarkyPants configuration: should i only set MarkyPants to yes, or e.g. leave auto < br / > to yes ... ?

Thanks.

G - B - O - 14 November 2006 02:16 AM

Does this mean when i alter xhtml it changes everywhere (like a standard profile), or is this a ‘per field’ option?

If you’re talking about in the “formatting” list then, when you set markypants to yes it should just show up as an option, alongside xhtml, completely independent.

G - B - O - 14 November 2006 02:16 AM

About the MarkyPants configuration: should i only set MarkyPants to yes, or e.g. leave auto < br / > to yes ... ?

you can leave br and xhtml to yes if you still want them to show up as available formatting options, usually i’ll turn xhtml off in favor of markypants.

let me clarify

completely independent

that meant that it is on a per-field basis.