[RESOLVED] highlight colors

[scrupul0us]

I just tweaked the background color in php.ini associated with syntax
hightlighting...

after stoping and restaring apache and testing my script, the background color is still white

after rebooting and testing my script, the background color is still white

after checking with php_info(); I see that the color is indeed set... but the BG of my code is ALWAYS white still...

suggestions

[Houdini]

What do you want it to do? Try this and look at it (this is not a progran it is a string and only works with strings enclosed in <?php and ?> so
<?php
highlight_string('<?php phpinfo(); ?>');
?>

[scrupul0us]

I'm using highlight_file

 echo highlight_file(__FILE__);

I get all the coloring except for the background

[Houdini]

Well it only highlights a string or file not the background, that would be HTML or CSS

[scrupul0us]

then i have to ask, why is there a background color property? seems to me, anything that highlight_file or highlight_string processes should have its BG styled by the color in the settings... having to add html markup to change the color takes away from the simplicity that using that function provides

[cahva]

highlight.bg doesnt work in php.ini. Period. Just check the source of outputted code and you see why. PHP just tries to wrap codes with <span color="#00000">. Ofcourse that doesnt work because color is for fontcolor. So highlight.bg is a joke, it doesnt do anything.

Just wrap it around div and give it proper style for background-color or just add CSS style for code tag. Its not a big deal really..

[bradgrafelman]

function highlight_file2($file,$bg='#123456') {
     echo "<div style=\"background-color: $bg\">\n";
     highlight_file($file);
     echo "</div>\n";
}

highlight_file2(__FILE__);

[scrupul0us]

be nice if you could permanently redefine the function so it worked like that... you'd think something like this would have been bugged and fixed by now

[bradgrafelman]

scrupul0us wrote:

be nice if you could permanently redefine the function so it worked like that... you'd think something like this would have been bugged and fixed by now

Yeah... best you could do is make your own include file and prepend it to all of your scripts using php.ini/.conf and use a different function name... highlight_file2() for example.

Maybe you should submit this as a bug report at http://bugs.php.net and see what they have to say over there.

[scrupul0us]

bradgrafelman wrote:

prepend it to all of your scripts using php.ini/.conf and use a different function name... highlight_file2() for example

will this allow me to not have to manually include it in every file?

can you provide an example of how i would do this?

[bradgrafelman]

Just copy the above function into something like... "new_functions.php" and save that in the "includes" directory where you installed PHP.

Then, look in your php.ini/.conf file for this:

; Automatically add files before or after any PHP document.
auto_prepend_file =

and add the filename in there. Next, look for something in your PHP config file called "include_path". Make sure that path includes the 'includes' directory, like so:

include_path=".;c:\php\includes"

Now, this is on my Windows server, so if you have Unix it'll be completely different.. something like:

include_path=".:/php/includes"

[scrupul0us]

awesome... ill hook that up tomm for sure... thanks brad 🙂

[scrupul0us]

ok... in my php.ini file (im unix) i have:

include_path=".:/php/includes"

however i cannot find that dir on my system so i made an includes dir here:

/etc/apache/includes

so does that mean I should make it like this:

include_path=".:/etc/apache/includes"

now, any file that I put in that dir, lets say custom.php

in the:

auto_prepend_file =

i just say:

auto_prepend_file = custom.php

thanks for the help!

[bradgrafelman]

scrupul0us wrote:

so does that mean I should make it like this:

include_path=".:/etc/apache/includes"

Yep.

Did this sort it out for you? If so, don't forget to mark this thread resolved!

[scrupul0us]

havent tried it just yet... just wanted to make some clarifications... off to play now 🙂

[scrupul0us]

ok... heres my custom.php

<?php
function highlight_file2($file)
{
if($_GET["d"]==1)
{
echo "<div align='center'>";
echo "<div align='left' style='background-color: #FFDF61; width: 85%; height: 25px; line-height: 25px; border: 1px solid black; border-bottom: none;
font-family: verdana, tahoma, helvetica; font-weight: bold;'>&nbsp;&lt;? PHP CODE</div>";
echo "<div align='left' style='background-color: #EEECE1; width: 85%; height: 600px; border: 1px solid black; overflow: auto;'>";
highlight_file(__FILE__);
echo "</div></div>";
break;
}
}
?>

now when I call the page with ?d=1 where I have this code:

echo highlight_file2(__FILE__);

all I get is the php code for custom.php not the file I call the function from...

any ideas?

[scrupul0us]

nm got it:

heres my custom.php

<?php
function highlight_file2($file)
{
if($_GET["d"]==1)
{
echo "<div align='center'>";
echo "<div align='left' style='background-color: #FFDF61; width: 85%; height: 25px; line-height: 25px; border: 1px solid black; border-bottom: none;
font-family: verdana, tahoma, helvetica; font-weight: bold;'>&nbsp;&lt;? PHP CODE</div>";
echo "<div align='left' style='background-color: #EEECE1; width: 85%; height: 600px; border: 1px solid black; overflow: auto;'>";
highlight_file($file);
echo "</div></div>";
break;
}
}
?>

and i call with:

echo highlight_file2("index.php");