Syntax Highlighting For Code

[sonesay 7]

Hey all, I'm not sure if its been brought up but I couldn't find any topics on this. Has anyone brought up the idea of updating the blocks to allow syntax highlighting? This would be a nice feature to have but I don't know if its something that can be easily added on. I don't know about you guys but when I see long blocks of code in the same color from users I just don't want to read them. Especially when they are put in a small box container about 100px high and I have to scroll through it. Making code easier to read would help a lot.

Peace
Sone.

[jlhaslip 4]

There is an HTML and an SQL BBcode tag already on the system.

<h2>Tab Menu 1</h2><div id="menu1">		<ul>		<li><a href="#1" title="Link 1">Link 1</a></li>		<li><a href="#2" title="Link 2">Link 2</a></li>	     		<li><a href="#3" title="Link 3">Link 3</a></li>			<li><a href="#4" title="Link 4">Link 4</a></li>			<li><a href="#5" title="Link 5">Link 5</a></li>			</ul></div><br />

// This file contains the database access information. // This file also establishes a connection to MySQL and selects the database.// This file also defines the escape_data() function.// Set the database access information as constants.DEFINE ('DB_USER', 'username');DEFINE ('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');DEFINE ('DB_HOST', 'localhost');DEFINE ('DB_NAME', 'sitename');// Make the connection.$dbc = @mysql_connect (DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD) OR die ('Could not connect to MySQL: ' . mysql_error() );// Select the database.@mysql_select_db (DB_NAME) OR die ('Could not select the database: ' . mysql_error() );

[sonesay 7]

Oh thanks for that information I didn't know they existed. That's good having syntax highlighting for that but I was hoping we could get them for some other languagues like PHP, Java, Javascript, C, C++ and what ever else is out there.

[galexcd 0]

Well syntax highlighting for php should be fairly easy seeing as php has a built in function to do it for you. highlight_string(). An admin would just have to add a new bbcode tag that ran all inclosing text through that function.

[pedro-kun 0]

Well syntax highlighting for php should be fairly easy seeing as php has a built in function to do it for you. highlight_string(). An admin would just have to add a new bbcode tag that ran all inclosing text through that function.

Not only that, but there are really nice plugins for almost every board type which can highlight *many* languages. It'd be a really nice function, I guess. I bet the folks back at the coding sections would love it

Even though it is Python-based, there's a cool highlighter called Pygments... It works pretty fine (even though there are bugs, of course).