html source code highlighting

[wolf42]

Is there a class or function that exists for this?

I ran across highlight_string("$string"); which will convert the html to display the source code in the browser. However, in order to get it to color code it, it seems you need to start and end it with the code to designate php code(<?php & ?> [ highlight_string("<?php$string?>"); ]).

For obvious reasons, I don't want to display <?php before and ?> after each segment of html source code.

Any help is much appriciated.

-Mark

[rrijnders]

That function is a PHP highlighter, not an html highlighter, per se. As such, it uses the PHP syntax highlighter. Your best bet is just to remove the <?PHP and ?> tags from the string after you run it though highlight_string.

Use the OB functions to capture the function output into a string:

ob_start(); 
highlight_string($myString); 
$myColoredString = ob_get_contents(); 
ob_end_clean();

Then remove the unwanted PHP tags:

 
$beginTagPos = strpos ($myColoredString,"<?"); 
$endTagPos = strrpos ($myColoredString,"?>"); 
$myCleanColoredString = substr($myColoredString, 0, $beginTagPos ) . substr($myColoredString, $beginTagPos + 5, $endTagPos - ($beginTagPos + 5) ) . substr($myColoredString, $endTagPos + 5); 

Or something to that affect. Play with the math...