Syntax Highlighting

Anon

Hi there!

I love the PHP 4 syntax-highlighting routines such as highlight_string(), highlight_file() and showsource(). But, there's just one little problem I've got...

I want to do some editing after the syntax highlight of a certain string of PHP source code. The 3 functions mentions above directly output highlighted code, but what I want, is to catch that output into a $var. Can anybody help me with this? TIA.

Greetz,

Vincent Driessen
http://www.datafox.nl/

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You might be able to get something to work with output buffering.
You might be able to buffer the output into a var and then work with the output before flushing it.

Anon

Can you give me some help on buffering output into vars? Never done that before. TIA.

Greetz,

Vincent Driessen
DataFox Engineering
http://www.datafox.nl/

Anon

I came across the same problem today I got this workign

<?php
$code = "<?php print "hello"; ?>";

ob_start();
highlight_string($code);
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

print $output;

But what I want to do is a little bit more complex and I'm stuck.

I have a database with a news field

tags like bold can be used

So when I retreive the field I want to replace

code here

with <b> output from highlight_string </b>

But it isn't working, for someone reason it is displaying sixs times, with the text not in the

 tag also in bold