How do you display your php source code with highlight or view source?

Question

How do you display your php source code with highlight or view source or is there more alternatives to this?

Answer 1

PHP has two native functions that might be of interest: highlight_file() and highlight_string(). If neither of those are ideal, you could also use Google Code Prettify to achieve this result. This is the solution many use, including StackOverflow itself.

Alternatives:

• SyntaxHighlighter
• SHJS
• jQuery Chili
• Lighter for MooTools
• GeSHi

Answer 2

On many servers if you give it a .phps file extension the source code will be displayed and highlighted.

Answer 3

You can use the php highlight_file function to echo the source of a file with syntax highlighting.

Answer 4

GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter is another opensource javascript library.

Answer 5

I do my editing in gvim which can be configured to do syntax sensitive code highlighting (amongst other things).

PHP has a builtin function which converts a string to coloured HTML

http://php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php

so...

<?php

print highlight_string(file_get_contents(__FILE__));

?>

demonstrates this.

You might also wnat to have a lokk at GeSHi

http://qbnz.com/highlighter/

HTH

C.