PHP Code highlighting

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Hello, I am trying to make a add a tutorial on the fly system to my website… and I was wondering how do I make something like this?


print "Test";
echo 'test';

I am just wondering how to highlight the blocks of PHP code ect…

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What you’re referring to is a plugin in vBulletin. I think there are other scripts that will do it for you though for non forum use. Try a google search.

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Alright… any idea on what it may be called? just try PHP highlighting?

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There’s a package called ‘code2html’, which can convert any code (PHP, C, C++, Java) to HTML - you have to run it once-per-file, so you can’t just do it on the fly…

The other option, and the one I tend to use most often, is to actually create a unique PHP file, and then symlink it to a .phps file, and then configure the webserver to do the highlighting for me… It’s built into PHP - files with the correct mime type will be highlighted automatically. The problem, then, is displaying that on your page.

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o… alright…

well im going to go search around and see what I can find.

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There is a function in PHP to do what you’re needing:
http://us3.php.net/highlight_string

Also, read the comments on that page, they are quite useful :slight_smile:

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:smiley: :smiley: :smiley: Thanks!

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cool little function!

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show_source(basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));
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but as mentioned before, using highlight_string is better because it highlights it rather than just showing the code :stuck_out_tongue:

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it hightlights it aswell :), differants is that highlight_string only hightlights the string you want it to hightlight…

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oh my bad :(, guess I should check before making dumb posts like that :P, but then what’s the difference between that and highlight_file?

edit: nevermind, they’re duplicates :wink:

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Nothing dumb about it… can’t know it all :slight_smile:

hightlight_file ( didnt even know that one lol )

   The **highlight_file()** function prints out a syntax      highlighted version of the code contained in filename       using the colors defined in the built-in syntax highlighter for PHP.     

   If the second parameter return is set to **TRUE**      then **highlight_file()** will return the highlighted      code as a string instead of printing it out. If the second parameter is      not set to **TRUE** then **highlight_file()** will      return **TRUE** on success, **FALSE** on failure.

[size=1]ssssssssssssstt [/size]still learning :slight_smile: Highlight_file for those who want to know

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yep, just was looking at it, and a while back I forgot about the second parameter, man was that one long night until I figured that out :stuck_out_tongue: