how to best go form markdown to CKedit?

[joe_g]

Hi there,

I've got an old site with tons of content written in markdown. Wysiwyg editing has matured a bit since 2010 and the client would like to change to ckedit. The question is what to do with all the old markdown, can it be converted somehow?

Did anyone do this? Any tips?  – thanks!

[Zeka]

Hi @joe_g

Maybe you can loop over all your page and just save output of your markdown field to the newly created ckeditor field

$yourpages = $pages->find("template=some");

foreach($yourpages as $p) {
	$p->ckeditorfiedl = $p->oldfield
	$p->save();
}

 

[joe_g]

right, thank you. Pretty simple

 

[Robin S]

@Zeka's suggestion is the right direction, but a couple of extra things are needed:

$your_pages = $pages->find("template=some_template");

foreach($your_pages as $p) {

    // Output formatting must be off before manipulating and saving the page
    $p->of(false);
    
    // You need to get the formatted value of the markdown field
    // i.e. with the textformatter applied
    $p->ckeditor_field = $p->getFormatted('markdown_field'); 
    
    $p->save();

}

Or a shorter way that takes care of the output formatting using setAndSave():

$your_pages = $pages->find("template=some_template");

foreach($your_pages as $p) {

    // Normally you wouldn't want to save a formatted value with setAndSave()
    // but in this case we do
    $p->setAndSave('ckeditor_field', $p->markdown_field);

}

 

[Zeka]

@Robin S

Thank you for your addition.