From 382a7f5acdd2ff0f995f760ce7a8173ad01761fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hypolite Petovan <mrpetovan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 23:17:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Create new HTML::toMarkdown wrapper

---
 src/Content/Text/BBCode.php |  4 +---
 src/Content/Text/HTML.php   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
index d0f512ce13..c3453bcf72 100644
--- a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
+++ b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ use Friendica\Util\Map;
 use Friendica\Util\Network;
 use Friendica\Util\ParseUrl;
 use Friendica\Util\Proxy as ProxyUtils;
-use League\HTMLToMarkdown\HtmlConverter;
 
 class BBCode extends BaseObject
 {
@@ -1942,8 +1941,7 @@ class BBCode extends BaseObject
 		$stamp1 = microtime(true);
 
 		// Now convert HTML to Markdown
-		$converter = new HtmlConverter();
-		$text = $converter->convert($text);
+		$text = HTML::toMarkdown($text);
 
 		// unmask the special chars back to HTML
 		$text = str_replace(['&\_lt\_;', '&\_gt\_;', '&\_amp\_;'], ['&lt;', '&gt;', '&amp;'], $text);
diff --git a/src/Content/Text/HTML.php b/src/Content/Text/HTML.php
index 9a9f24f97f..c256717a15 100644
--- a/src/Content/Text/HTML.php
+++ b/src/Content/Text/HTML.php
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use DOMXPath;
 use Friendica\Core\Addon;
 use Friendica\Util\Network;
 use Friendica\Util\XML;
+use League\HTMLToMarkdown\HtmlConverter;
 
 class HTML
 {
@@ -672,4 +673,19 @@ class HTML
 
 		return trim($message);
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Converts provided HTML code to Markdown. The hardwrap parameter maximizes
+	 * compatibility with Diaspora in spite of the Markdown standards.
+	 *
+	 * @param string $html
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function toMarkdown($html)
+	{
+		$converter = new HtmlConverter(['hard_break' => true]);
+		$markdown = $converter->convert($html);
+
+		return $markdown;
+	}
 }