# Code color parser

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/code-color-parser/301800>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [December 15, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/code-color-parser/301800 "2009-12-15T23:40:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/code-color-parser/301800/1 "2009-12-15T23:40:30Z")

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```php

function howDoI($parse = 'code') {
   $andColorCode = 'it';
   // like this?
   $is = $there + $aFreePHP + 'color parser somewhere?';
}

```

I looked at the built in highlight\_string(), but that doesn’t color code HTML like this vBulliten does.