 Syntax Highlighting For Code |
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 Aug 1 2008, 11:27 PM
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|||[ n00b King ]|||  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 689 Joined: 20-June 07 From: Auckland Member No.: 45,102  |
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 [code][/code] 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.
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Aug 1 2008, 11:36 PM
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 4,077 Joined: 24-July 05 From: Linix, DOS and Windows…the good, the bad and the ugly Member No.: 9,787  |
There is an HTML and an SQL BBcode tag already on the system.
HTML <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 /> SQL // 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() ); |
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Aug 1 2008, 11:41 PM
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|||[ n00b King ]||| Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 689 Joined: 20-June 07 From: Auckland Member No.: 45,102 |
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.
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Aug 2 2008, 06:16 AM
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Define:EVIL PROGRAMMER (ē'vəl prō'grăm'ər)- n. An organism that converts caffeine into evil software. Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,076 Joined: 25-September 05 From: Los Angeles, California Member No.: 12,251 |
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.
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Aug 2 2008, 12:44 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 69 Joined: 30-July 08 From: Portugal Member No.: 65,749 |
QUOTE(galexcd @ Aug 2 2008, 07:16 AM)  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). |
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