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Jul 28.2008

I’m working on my website, which will include code snippets. The article itself is stored in a db. Each piece of code is included in a class “code” div.
What I want to know is a method of formatting it, doing selective syntax highlighting (C++, PHP, HTML, etc – I can specify that in my div as a first line or something) and then displaying it nicely on the client side. This includes detecting long lines which go over the div.

Something like [url=http://programmabilities.com/xml/?id=15]this[/url] would be nice (I’m talking about the auto numbered lines, although it has no highlight). I’m sure there’s a script for this somewhere.

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@NogDogJul 28.2008 — PHP has the highlight_string() and highlight_file() functions which you might want to look at.
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@scragarJul 28.2008 — firstly please note that there is a tag especialy designed for displaying code, it's quite litteraly the code tag:
[code=html]<code>some code or other</code>[/code]

secondly php's highlight_string function works great for PHP and javascript (and C/C++ to a lesser extent).

http://qbnz.com/highlighter/ <-- that's a nice code to do a lot of languages and make them styled, although I'm not too big a fan of the results it does reduce the code required.



EDIT: beat to it ?
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@kvirriauthorJul 29.2008 — I'm not exactly into syntax_highlight, since I also need some assembly from time to time. GeSHi is what I need, wonderful piece of code. Thanks!
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@LeeUJul 29.2008 — We use SyntaxHighlighter over on WebReference.com. It works great.
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