formatting php code snipplet in an article

[Anon]

This may have been asked and answered before in these forums but I'm new here so please forgive me if it has...

I was reading a few articles on phpbuilder.com and I see that in the articles there are places where little code snipplets are taken probably from a database and formatted with color highlighting and everything. How is this done?

[Anon]

If your server is configured to do so, you can serve highlighted .phps files; see the docs for details.

PHP4 has highlight_string() and highlight_file functions that are documented in the "Misc." section of the manual. The former would be your best bet for pulling snippets out of a database.