markdown-parser.php

<?php

$blogPostArray = array();

try {
    $fp = fopen("./sample.txt", "r");
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'File does not exist';
}
$hrTagCount = 0;
$readmoreCount = 0;
while ($contents = fgets($fp)) {
    // echo $contents;
    // echo substr($contents, 0, strpos($contents, ":"))."\n";
    $contents = trim($contents);
    if ($contents == '---') {
        $hrTagCount++;
        continue;
    } else {
        if ($hrTagCount < 2) {
            $arrKey = strval(substr($contents, 0, strpos($contents, ":")));
            $arrContent = filter_var(strval(str_replace('"', "", substr($contents, strpos($contents, ":")))), FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED);
        } else {
            if (strtolower($contents) == "readmore") {
                $readmoreCount++;
                continue;
            } elseif ($contents == "") {
                continue;
            } else {
                if ($readmoreCount >= 1) {
                    $arrKey = "content";
                    $contents = str_replace("#", "", $contents);
                    $contents = trim($contents);
                    if (array_key_exists("content", $blogPostArray)) {
                        $arrContent = $blogPostArray["content"] ."\n". $contents;
                    } else {
                        $arrContent = $contents;
                    }
                } else {
                    $arrKey = "short-content";
                    $arrContent = $contents;
                }
            }
        }
        $blogPostArray[$arrKey] = $arrContent;
    }
}

fclose($fp);
print_r(json_encode($blogPostArray));