Texy is a text-to-HTML engine for lightweight markup languages, written in PHP. It turns human-readable plain text into structurally valid HTML – complete with images, links, nested lists, and tables – no knowledge of HTML required.
Above all, Texy is an engine. It ships with its own rich, easy-to-read markup, but nothing about that syntax is set in stone: every rule can be switched on or off, redefined, or extended with your own. You can reshape Texy to speak a different dialect entirely – even Markdown.
And Texy is a typographer at heart. It swaps straight quotes for typographically correct ones, hyphens for dashes, the letter x for the dimension sign, and applies many more refinements so your text reads like it was professionally typeset.
Install Texy via Composer:
composer require texy/texy
Texy requires PHP 8.1 or higher.
$texy = new Texy;
$html = $texy->process($text);
For untrusted input, always enable safe mode, which restricts the output to a safe subset of HTML:
Texy\Configurator::safeMode($texy);
$html = $texy->process($text);
The full manual is on the homepage https://texy.nette.org. The docs/ directory holds the reference for using and extending Texy:
- Syntax reference – complete reference of the Texy markup language, including syntaxes that are disabled by default
- Configuration – all configuration options, the
Configuratorpresets, and security (safe mode) - Custom handlers – changing the behavior of existing constructs via element and notification handlers
- Custom syntax – adding brand-new markup constructs
The examples/ directory contains ready-to-run demos.
Do you like Texy? Are you looking forward to the new features?
Thank you!