enscript, eregi_replace, preg_match = ahh! help plz?

sonuku

rargh

ok, i had a whinge around google until i found out how to do syntax highlights for code...

and came up with this:

	function syntax_hilight($filename) {
	    if ((substr($filename, -4) == '.php')) {
	        ob_start();
	        show_source($filename);
	        $buffer = ob_get_contents();
	        ob_end_clean();
	    } else {
	        $argv = '-q -p - -E --language=html --color '.escapeshellcmd($filename);
	        $buffer = array();

        exec("enscript $argv", $buffer);

        $buffer = join("\n", $buffer);
        $buffer = eregi_replace('^.*<PRE>',  '<pre>',  $buffer);
        $buffer = eregi_replace('</PRE>.*$', '</pre>', $buffer);
    }

    // Making it XHTML compatible.
    $buffer = eregi_replace('<FONT COLOR="([^"]*)">', 
        '<span style="color:\1">', $buffer);
    $buffer = eregi_replace('</FONT>', '</style>', $buffer);

    return $buffer;
}

ok, now that aside... basically, everytime im dragging some text out of the database, i run this:

	function htmlstrip($contenttofix){
		$contenttofix = stripslashes($contenttofix);
		$contenttofix = eregi_replace("\r\n\r\n","<p>","$contenttofix");
		$contenttofix = eregi_replace("\r\n","<br>","$contenttofix");
}

i know that the first function in this thread is for reading files, and whinging the output with all the <font="... tags etc...

basically... what i want to do... is somehow mix the two of these functions together...

sort of like thow your average bb or vB forum does, with the [ PHP][ /PHP] tags

so... something like:

$contenttofix = eregi_replace("&lt;code>", START-FORMATTING-WITH-COLORBITS!, $contenttofix);
$contenttofix = eregi_replace("&lt;/code>", STOP-FORMATTING-WITH-COLORBITS!, $contenttofix);

and basically make it so it only formats with enscript when the code is between the <code> and </code> tags...

does that make sence? 🙂

im expecting there to be some big evil preg_match or something somewhere... but i dunno. ;(