PHP syntax highlighting [closed]

Answer 1

A little late to chime in here, but I've been working on my own PHP syntax highlighting library. It is still in its early stages, but I am using it for all code samples on my blog.

Just checked out Hyperlight. It looks pretty cool, but it is doing some pretty crazy stuff. Nested loops, processing line by line, etc. The core class is over 1000 lines of code.

If you are interested in something simple and lightweight check out Nijikodo: http://www.craigiam.com/nijikodo

Answer 2

Krijn Hoetmer's PHP Highlighter provides a completely customizable PHP class to highlight PHP syntax. The HTML it generates, validates under a strict doctype, and is completely stylable with CSS.

Answer 3

Since no existing tool satisfied my needs, I wrote my own. Lo and behold:

Hyperlight

Usage is extremely easy: just use

 <?php hyperlight($code, 'php'); ?>

to highlight code. Writing new language definitions is relatively easy, too – using regular expressions and a powerful but simple state machine. By the way, I still need a lot of definitions so feel free to contribute.

Answer 4

[I marked this answer as Community Wiki because you're specifically not looking for Javascript]

http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/ is a PHP (plus the following list of other languages supported) syntax highlighting library:

Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, Django, Javascript, VBScript, Delphi, Java, C++, C#, Lisp, RenderMan (RSL and RIB), Maya Embedded Language, SQL, SmallTalk, Axapta, 1C, Ini, Diff, DOS .bat, Bash

It uses <span class="keyword"> style markup.

It has also been integrated in the dojo toolkit (as a dojox project: dojox.lang.highlight)

Though not the most popular way to run a webserver, strictly speaking, Javascript is not only implemented on the client-side, but there are also Server-Side Javascript engine/platform combinations too.