»Markdown Extra (With SmartyPants)« and PHP 7.4.2

[animaux]

When using the Markdown Extra (With SmartyPants) text formatter and PHP 7.4.2 I get a 503 response from the server when trying to save an entry.

However, I was not able to reproduce the error on a local envirenment using PHP 7.4.1.

[animaux]

Markdown Extra (without Smartypants) yields the same problem.

[michael-e]

This extension uses a rather old version of PHP Markdown: 1.2.8 — the current version is 1.9.0.

If you only need Markdown, you might try my minimalistic alternative: https://github.com/michael-e/php_markdown

[animaux]

Will do!

[michael-e]

I should mention that it doesn't even do Smarty Pants, because this is a separate project. For more information see https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown (README text).

[animaux]

Danke!