Highlight Script

[Ahren]

I am wanting to make a php highlight script just for some experiementing. I have found that using highlight_string() will not show variables so if I have:

$variable = bla;

It will only show

 = bla;

I want to make it so it does show the variable name. I could use highlight_file(), which will show the variable names, but that gets kind of annoying when you have to make a new file everytime you want to show the code.

[Steveo31]

In your IDE do a search and replace and replace $ with \$

[Ahren]

Sweet, it works. Thank you for your help.

[Weedpacket]

Or use single quotes around the string to be highlighted....

highlight_string('<?php echo "This is a $string with some $variables in it."');