Highlighting problem

[Tewl]

I'm trying to echo it onto a black background so I uncommented these lines in the php.ini

highlight.string = #DD0000
highlight.comment = #FF9900
highlight.keyword = #007700
highlight.bg = #000000
highlight.default = #0000BB
highlight.html = #FFFFFF

changing the background to black an the html to white

My problem here i guess its it thinks the php is html i suppose because its echoing it all white ( http://www.tewlzbox.org to see )

I add the message into the database using addslashes then when i post it i do the following

$msg = stripslashes($msg);
$msg = htmlentities($msg);
$msg = nl2br($msg);
$msg = preg_replace("!\\[php\\](.+?)\\[/php\\]!is",highlight_code("\\\\1"), $msg);

Highlight code function:

function highlight_code($text)
{
  ob_start();
  echo "    <font size=\\"1\\" face=\\"Verdana\\">PHP Code:</font>";
  echo "    <hr>\\n";
  highlight_string($text);
  echo "    <hr>\\n";
  echo "    <br>\\n";
  $newtext = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();
  return $newtext;
}

[weekender]

a little error checking... in the function, add the die code

highlight_string($text) or die("highlight failed!");

now you can see if it's actually failing or not.

[Tewl]

no error still same result

[matt_4013]

The highlight_*() functions wont highlight anything if it's not enclosed in <?php ?> quotes. It's bloody annoying! took me ages to figure that one out.

[Tewl]

I tried adding html_entity_decode to my function but it still isnt working ;\