PHP color coding

[iBram007]

Hey, when I use the tags [ php ] [ /php ], your script is coded in nice colors, what's the trick to do this??

[Robo]

My code always comes out in colour when I put them between php tags.

<?php

echo "Hello";

?>

echo "Hello"; 

[iBram007]

No, that's not my question, I mean when I want to display code on my site, and I want It coded in colors, how do I do that?

[mmj]

A syntax highlighting system is complex. It parses the language looking for syntax conventions, and placing tags around them to enable them to show up in a certain colour.

You may find pre-written code to do this for PHP, or you may need to do it yourself.

[pedro_gb]

You might be able to find the answer by looking at the source.php file at php.net: [http://php.net/source.php?url=/source.php].

[freddydoesphp]

What you are after is the highlight_string() function. It will color code a string based on the colors set for source code coloring in the php.ini file. For instance let's say we pulled a bit of code from a database and stored it in a variable named $data

If we did

//Produces color-highlighted version of $data
print highlight_string($data); 

[oodie]

Or if you want to highlight the content of a file, you can use

show_source("filename.php");