I was recently searching the forums and the add-on library for a syntax highlighting solution - unfortunately all I found were some dead links or some stuff in development. I ended up creating an extension based on the popular GeSHi highlighter on my own.
Features:
- intelligent caching (GeSHify will cache your highlighted source until either the source code or some settings have been modified or the source code cache hasn’t been used for a customizable period of time)
- supports switching between GeSHi 1.0 and 1.1-alpha by click
- customizable tag (in case you want to keep the original functionality of [ code ] instead of overwriting it, which is the default setting)
- HTML-argument-style settings: you can pass something like type=actionscript
- Default settings manageable using the control panel, so you don’t have to pass all arguments each time you’re pasting code
If you encounter any bugs or you’d like to see a feature in the next version of GeSHify, you can either post here, comment at my blog or send me an email via the email system of the forums.
This doesn’t seem to be getting as much response as I would have thought.
Unfortunately - quite a lot of people were asking for it, but few actually seem to use it.
I will still try to submit it to the Add-On library to keep it available long-term. Does anybody have some experience with submitting add-ons, cause I already tried and didn’t even receive any feedback from EllisLabs.
neverpanic, we did receive your submission, but have been too heavily involved in development of 2.0 to give it a good go-through. It’s still sitting in my “action required” mailbox, though, so never fear. :-D
How’s THAT for response time?!
Gosh I love this forum!
Definitely awesome.
I’ll try to submit the new version during the next days (there have been some changes since I submitted the extension), so don’t check it now…
JQuery offers some code highlighting plugin’s Chili is one that stands out: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/chili
Do you think this solution is compareable better/worse?
I can’t help but think of the weLoveFood.com project when I see this.
Quick question: what’s the language type for xhtml? html, xhtml and similar does not seem to work.
AFAIK GeSHi does not support XHTML (definitely a downside on GeSHi).
For languages types, check the geshi folder in GeSHi 1.0 and the geshi/languages folder in GeSHi 1.1. The types are the names of the files/folders, i.e. html4strict for GeSHi 1.0 and html for GeSHi 1.1 (don’t have any time to look into it, but that should be it)
JQuery offers some code highlighting plugin’s Chili is one that stands out: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/chili
Do you think this solution is compareable better/worse?
jQuery seems to be an interesting way to colorize source code. The project seems nice, however more work could be done there… line numbers would be cool, aswell as user-configurable code-highlighting (e.g. I like light code on dark background, and using JavaScript you could change that on a per-user basis).
JavaScript is also the way to go if you’re concerned about server load.
Thanks for your reply, that’s definitely a downside, but i think i can live with that. Other than that, it’s a wonderful plugin.
EDIT: [code type|lang=html] does not work with Geshi 1.1, it returns
[code lang=html]
and the html…
EDIT2:
Is there any other way (at the moment at least) for me to disable the keyword matching during the code highlight (I don’t like the links to the php keywords etc.) other than doing
EDIT: [code type|lang=html] does not work with Geshi 1.1, it returns
[code lang=html]
and the html…
I am using [code type=html] on my blog and it works fine… please specify either “lang” or “type”, if you specify both, one of them will be ignored. The EE coding guidelines don’t like that kind of behaviour, so expect the type attribute to be removed in further versions.
peschehimself - 14 April 2008 08:18 PM
EDIT2:
Is there any other way (at the moment at least) for me to disable the keyword matching during the code highlight (I don’t like the links to the php keywords etc.) other than doing
$geshi->enable_keyword_links(false);
in extension code itself?
This is the only way atm, however adding new parameters isn’t that hard - I should be able to add it this week. If you want more parameters, please state which.
I’ve specified only one, i tried both however, lang and type. “html4strict” works, “html” does not - but this is of course because the stable version only has “html4strict” and only the alpha version has the latter
Another thing i noticed did not work, were the delimiters. When i set these from [ and ] to < and >, it does not seem to work, but maybe i’m doing something wrong
As for the settings, the most essential for us would be:
- disable keywords (links in code)
- set start line number for a code block - setting a language type (already implemented with type|lang attribute)
Those are the two i can think of right now, most probably the two most used.
I’ve specified only one, i tried both however, lang and type. “html4strict” works, “html” does not - but this is of course because the stable version only has “html4strict” and only the alpha version has the latter
So this problem is resolved? I just noticed that the default values that come with GeSHify were to use GeSHi 1.0 but the type “html” (HTML for GeSHi 1.1) - which obviously wouldn’t work then. This will be fixed in versions > 0.3.6.0
peschehimself - 15 April 2008 09:36 AM
Another thing i noticed did not work, were the delimiters. When i set these from [ and ] to < and >, it does not seem to work, but maybe i’m doing something wrong
Will look into this now
- disable keywords (links in code)
Will be supported in 0.3.6.0
- set start line number for a code block
This is built-in since 0.3.something, but it seems I forgot to add documentation for it. Use start=[number] meanwhile. Documentation will be updated on release of 0.3.6.0
Edit: GeSHify 0.3.6.0 has been released. Get it at the GeSHify post at my blog.
I also tried changing my GeSHify tag name and the delimiters, and I could use <> and geshify instead of [] and code.
Btw: @peschehimself: Seeing your site is partially German you can also mail me in German about any problems - as you probably noticed I’m German.
Hello gurus,
Does this resolve the issue of how code tage is processed in EE?
I don’t know about any issues in the EE code-tag, but by default GeSHify simply overwrites the behaviour of the EE-code-tag.
This is due to the nature GeSHify internally handles these posts:
1. GeSHify gets the raw text and replaces everything between valid code-tags with a marker (you could compare that marker to a pin)
2. It returns that modified text back to EE for it’s internal text parsing (where the code-tag would be handled the EE way)
3. It receives the text EE parsed and replaces the pin from step 1 with the highlighted source code.
This means for you: Yes, it _should_ resolve the issues.
Can you provide the exact code you’re using in the text field? What makes you think this error is related to GeSHify? GeSHify does not call the evaluate() function in line 635 of core/core.functions.php where the error occurs, neither does GeSHi.
Having a backtrace or at least the executed code would be nice, you could dump that by inserting the following code at line 637 of core/core.functions.php:
// dump $str into a flat file for later reference $fh = fopen(dirname(__FILE__).'/evaluate-dump.txt', 'a'); fwrite($fh, "\n\n".date('d.m.Y H:i:s').":\n".$str); fclose($fh);
This code will create a file called evaluate-dump.txt in your core/-Directory (make sure it’s writable to the webserver). After you added this code, please reproduce the error and provide the contents of evaluate-dump.txt. Make sure to remove the added code lines after you did this.
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