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As this is a Jade forum, it would be really cool if the Code tag did Jade code highlighting, for example classes in green, literals in red, reserved words in blue etc.

That would be a nice option - not that I'm offering to code the changes necessary to support this... besides I don't have access to the source for these new forums anyway....

Unfortunately global constants would just have to go class color green as the forums don't have the meta-data to know if the upper-case-first-letter "word" is a class name or a global constant name like the IDE does.

Cheers,
BeeJay.

True, but it could highlight known classes and constants (i.e. Jade ones) correctly and leave unknown ones black

I have some old Jade code that does this to Jade method source. It's pretty straightforward and could be converted to PHP is someone wants to put in the effort.

I'd be willing to give it a shot if we had confirmation from Jade that they were willing to install it in the forum

I'd be willing to give it a shot if we had confirmation from Jade that they were willing to install it in the forum

Yes, we will install it if someone is willing to write one. A Jade syntax highlighter function would need to be written in PHP and produce html output similar to http://php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php, outputting only <span> and <br /> html tags in XHTML 1.0 Strict and use css classes for colorization.

The bbcode code tag could specify jade code as follows:

Code: Select all

Thanks

allistar, can you post your code highlighting code so I can take a look at it please?

No problem, I'll try and find the Jade database this code is in and I'll attach the class that does this highlighting.

Attached is a zipped class extract for a class that was designed to show exception details from an exception on a webpage (it is used for Jade systems exposed on the web using JHP). It should br fairly easy to get working by itself: call the "set" method passing in: (false, sourceCode, 0, "", 0, 0) and then call getDisplay to return the HTML version of the method. This doesn't use style sheets at all - it returns the old style <font...> etc. tags. It shouldn't be too difficult to modify it to work in PHP. All I ask is that the resultant PHP class be made available to all who want it.

Apparently the "board attachment quota has been reached". Once this is fixed I'll upload the file, otherwise provide me with an email address and I'll email it instead.