CandyShine

PHP port of charmbracelet/glamour — Markdown → ANSI renderer built on league/commonmark and CandySprinkles.

composer require sugarcraft/candy-shine

The Renderer exposes short-form aliases on every option: theme / wordWrap / hyperlinks / baseURL / tableWrap / inlineTableLinks / preservedNewLines / emoji / standardStyle. The upstream-mirroring with* long forms still work — pick whichever reads better at the call site.

Quickstart

use SugarCraft\Shine\Renderer;

echo (new Renderer())->render(<<<MD
# Welcome

A few **bold** and _italic_ words, with `inline code` and a
[link](https://example.com).

- one
- two
- three

```php
echo "hello world";

MD);

## Themes

Stock presets:

```php
use SugarCraft\Shine\{Renderer, Theme};

new Renderer(Theme::ansi());        // default colourful
new Renderer(Theme::plain());       // no SGR
new Renderer(Theme::notty());       // alias for plain — non-TTY fallback
new Renderer(Theme::dark());        // dark-bg optimised
new Renderer(Theme::light());       // light-bg optimised
new Renderer(Theme::dracula());     // #282a36 / #ff79c6 palette
new Renderer(Theme::tokyoNight());  // #1a1b26 / #7aa2f7
new Renderer(Theme::pink());        // playful sweet palette

Custom JSON theme:

$theme = Theme::fromJson('./themes/my-theme.json');
echo (new Renderer($theme))->render($markdown);

JSON shape: an object keyed by element name (heading1, paragraph, bold, italic, code, codeBlock, link, blockquote, listMarker, rule, keyword, string, number, comment, strike, linkText, image, htmlBlock, htmlSpan, definitionTerm, definitionDescription, text, autolink); each value carries foreground / background (hex / ansi:N / ansi256:N) plus the SGR flags (bold, italic, underline, strike, faint, blink, reverse).

Word-wrap + OSC 8 hyperlinks

$renderer = (new Renderer(Theme::dark()))
    ->withWordWrap(80)
    ->withHyperlinks(true);

echo $renderer->render($markdown);

withHyperlinks(true) (default) wraps every [text](url) in OSC 8 ; ; URL ST text OSC 8 ; ; ST so terminals that support it render real clickable links. Falls back to text (url) when off.

What it renders

• Headings 1-6, paragraphs, **bold**, _italic_, ~~strike~~.
• Inline code, fenced code blocks (with regex syntax highlighting for PHP / JS / TS / JSON / Python / Go / Bash / SQL), indented code.
• Bullet + ordered + nested lists.
• Block quotes (▎-prefixed).
• GFM tables (rendered via Sprinkles\Table with rounded border).
• Task lists (☑ / ☐).
• Links (with OSC 8 hyperlinks), autolinks, images (alt + url).
• HTML blocks + inline HTML — pass through with theme styling.
• Thematic breaks.

Authoring a custom theme

A Theme is a value object — every slot is a Style (or scalar). Build one with the constructor and feed it to new Renderer($theme):

use SugarCraft\Core\Util\Color;
use SugarCraft\Shine\Theme;
use SugarCraft\Sprinkles\Style;

$theme = new Theme(
    heading1:  Style::new()->bold()->underline()->foreground(Color::hex('#ff5f87')),
    heading2:  Style::new()->bold()->foreground(Color::hex('#ffd700')),
    heading3:  Style::new()->bold()->foreground(Color::ansi(14)),
    heading4:  Style::new()->bold()->foreground(Color::ansi(12)),
    heading5:  Style::new()->bold()->foreground(Color::ansi(13)),
    heading6:  Style::new()->bold()->foreground(Color::ansi(10)),
    paragraph: Style::new(),
    bold:      Style::new()->bold(),
    italic:    Style::new()->italic(),
    code:      Style::new()->foreground(Color::hex('#ffd700')),
    codeBlock: Style::new()->faint(),
    link:      Style::new()->underline()->foreground(Color::ansi(12)),
    blockquote: Style::new()->italic()->foreground(Color::ansi(8)),
    listMarker: Style::new()->foreground(Color::hex('#ff5f87')),
    rule:      Style::new()->foreground(Color::ansi(8)),

    // Element extensions:
    headingPrefix:    '❯ ',
    headingCase:      'upper',
    paragraphPrefix:  '  ',
    documentMargin:   1,
    listLevelIndent:  4,
    taskTickedGlyph:  '✓',
    taskUntickedGlyph:'·',
    horizontalRuleGlyph: '═',
    horizontalRuleLength: 60,
);

echo (new Renderer($theme))->render($markdown);

The full slot reference (left-to-right reading the constructor):

Block	Slots
Headings	heading1 … heading6 (with headingPrefix, headingSuffix, headingCase)
Paragraphs	paragraph (+ paragraphPrefix / paragraphSuffix)
Inline	bold · italic · strike · code · link · linkText · autolink · image · imageText · text
Block	codeBlock · blockquote · rule · listMarker · htmlBlock · htmlSpan
Document	documentMargin · documentIndent · documentBlockPrefix / Suffix
Lists	orderedListMarker · unorderedListMarker · orderedListMarkerFormat · unorderedListMarkerGlyph · listLevelIndent
Task list	taskTickedGlyph · taskUntickedGlyph
Horizontal rule	horizontalRuleGlyph · horizontalRuleLength
Tables	tableHeader · tableCell · tableSeparator · tableCenterSeparator · tableColumnSeparator · tableRowSeparator
Definition lists	definitionTerm · definitionDescription · definitionList
Syntax highlighting	keyword · string · number · comment

Stock themes (Theme::ansi(), Theme::dark(), Theme::dracula(), Theme::tokyoNight(), Theme::pink(), Theme::light(), Theme::ascii(), Theme::notty(), Theme::plain()) are good starting points — copy the constructor call and adjust the slots you care about.

Theme::fromEnvironment(?$default) reads GLAMOUR_STYLE (case- insensitive, hyphen / underscore tolerant) so users can override the theme without code changes:

GLAMOUR_STYLE=tokyo-night php examples/render.php

Renderer options

new Renderer($theme)
    ->withWordWrap(80)               // wrap paragraphs / blockquotes / lists
    ->withHyperlinks(true)           // emit OSC 8 link envelopes
    ->withBaseURL('https://docs.example.com/')  // prefix relative links
    ->withTableWrap(true)            // wrap text inside table cells
    ->withInlineTableLinks(false)    // suppress (url) suffix in cells
    ->withPreservedNewLines(true)    // keep `\n\n+` runs from source
    ->withStandardStyle('dracula')   // re-pick the stock theme
    ->withEmoji(true);               // expand `:smile:` shortcodes

Renderer::renderMarkdown($md, ?Theme) is a one-shot static convenience for ad-hoc rendering. For repeated renders with the same theme, build a Renderer and reuse it (the parser is cached per instance).

Test

cd candy-shine && composer install && vendor/bin/phpunit

Demos

Render

Themes

Related

• SugarCraft monorepo
• Upstream: charmbracelet/glamour