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Better Syntax Highlighting

We know have a better syntax highlighting system. Before today the only code blocks we had were php, html, and code(which has no highlighting). Today I have gotten Geshi to work with vbulletin and this allows us to be able to highlight many more languages. The current list of of languages is as follows:

Quote:

apache
asm
asp
bash
c
c_mac
caddcl
cadlisp
cpp
csharp
css
d
delphi
diff
div
eiffel
gml
html4strict
java
javascript
lisp
lua
matlab
mpasm
nsis
objc
oobas
oracle8
pascal
perl
php
php-brief
python
qbasic
smarty
sql
vb
vbnet
vhdl
visualfoxpro
xml

Now to use this highlighting you will have to use the following bbcode:

Quote:

[*highlight=lang*] Code [*/highlight*]
Remember to remove the * from the tags so that this will work.

Here are a few examples to show you that it works:

// HelloWorld.cpp
#include <iostream>
 
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
    cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
    return 0;
}

// HelloWorld.cs
using System;
 
public class HelloWorld
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
    }
}

// HelloWorld.java
class HelloWorld 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }
}

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# HelloWorld.pl
use strict;
print "Hello World!\n";

// HelloWorld.php
<?php
echo 'Hello World!';
?>

You can still use the php and html bbcode tags for those 2 languages if you want but you can also now use the new highlight=php or highlight=html4strict tags as well.

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
     std::cout << "Cool cool. Thanks Big K!" << std::endl;
     // :)
     return 0;
}

Thats really useful thanks!

Two words: Damn nice!
Only two things I can think of that I don't like, it's the underline and bold text.
Imo it should only be coloured and italic text.
Maybe one thing more, they have some damn stange colours.

std::cout << "..." << std::endl; // <- :o

This will help a great deal Kyle, thanks.

pretty sweet feature, we should probably make this thread sticky. Or even place a link to it under the link for the forum rules.

void what do you mean by bold and underline text? The stuff that is underline is normally a link. go up and click on them and they bring you to a page explaining what that command means, it works best for the php commands I have noticed that the java ones just do a google search and the perl ones don't seem to work. I will see what I can do to make sure they work.

I found a problem.

It doesn't accept left square brackets properly. It converts it to ascii. And then interprets the pound sign in the ascii as a comment.

This has only been tested with Python highlighting.

 
my_list = []

Not sure if you have control over being able to fix this though. =S

yeah sykkn found that before I announced it too. I didn't think it would be this quick before someone else found it but I am currently trying to figure out the problem :) if you do [[ the second one works but the first one gets converted to ascii for some wierd reason.

my_list = []

Now it works :D

my_list2 = []

Request: Ruby

Otherwise: Pretty good. :)