Change the font used for highlight_string

gkornbluth

Hi all,

I’m fairly new to the intricacies of PHP coding.

I’m using the highlight_string function to present code on my page.

The colors are fine, but I’d like to change the font from the standard monotype font to something a little more in keeping with the rest of my site.

Verdana would work perfectly.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jerry

dagon

you can use css, i think it wraps it all in <code> so just style that.

gkornbluth

If you mean a standard <span class"myclass"> tag, It doesn't seem to change the font, although it seems to affect the text size of a #1 that appears after the highlight_string (why the 1 appears is another question I have)

Here's a sample page:

http://thecmsbcookbook.com/recipedetail.php?UNDERSTANDING-A-LIST-PAGE-298

and here's the code that I'm using

<style type="text/css">

.Large-Text {font-family: "Comic Sans MS", cursive; color:#C00; font-size:6em; }
.Medium-Text {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; }
.Medium-Text-Bold {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;}

</style>
</head>
<body>

<table width="800" border="0">
  <?php foreach ($table_of_contentsRecords as $record): ?><tr>


<!--remove all remaining line breaks from the code not converted to zx in wordprocessor-->

<?PHP $record['recipe'] = preg_replace("[<br>]", "", $record['recipe'] ); ?>
<?PHP $record['recipe'] = preg_replace("[<br/>]", "", $record['recipe'] ); ?>   

<?PHP $record['recipe'] = preg_replace("[<br />]", "", $record['recipe'] ); ?>

<!--replace the valid <br /> in the code segment -->
<?PHP $record['recipe'] = preg_replace("[zx]i", "<br />", $record['recipe'] ); ?>


<td> <span class="Medium-Text-Bold"><b><?php echo $record['topic'] ?></span></b><br/><br/></span><br />

<?php
$recipe = wordwrap($record['recipe'],150) ;
$recipe = highlight_string($recipe) ;

 ?>
 <span class="Large-Text"><br><?php echo $recipe; ?><br/></span></td>
  </tr><?php endforeach ?>
</table>

Thanks for any ideas you may have.

Best,

Jerry

dagon

as i said style code and i wouldn't put all the text in there either

gkornbluth

I hate to be dense, but could you giver me an example based on the code above?

Jerry

johanafm

in your css file, or in a <style type="text/css"> element

code {
	font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
}

And the other thing he meant was to keep only your actual html code in code elements, and all other text in div, p or whatever element suits you.

gkornbluth

Thanks for the explanation johanafm,

I was able to change the font, but I don't think that I'll be able to segregate the code snippets from the descriptive text.

The record data came from a CMS Cookbook and the "recipes" were originally in a very long word processor document that I'm now putting on-line. There were many code snippets in each recipe.

But this looks much better and will work for my purposes.

One more question if I may.

Any idea why I am seeing the number "1" at the end of the field on every page. Asz in this example:

http://thecmsbcookbook.com/recipedetail.php?298

Thanks,

Jerry

gkornbluth

johanafm and Dagon,

I think I found the source of the errant "1".

If I remove the <?php echo $recipe; ?> the code still outputs as highlighted code but the "1" disappears.

Is this "fix" going to get me into trouble with some browser down the road or is it OK to do this?

Thanks,

jerry