Geshi with Markdown

Question

Im trying to get GeSHi to work with markdown.

A simple use for Geshi is as follows:

$geshi = new GeSHi($message, 'c');
print $geshi->parse_code();

The above code takes in the whole of message and turns it into Highlighted code

I also have my Markdown Function

print Markdown($message);

I was trying to use call back function to preg_match the <pre> tags returned from markdown and run the geshi->parse_code(); function on the returned values

Here is my code

print preg_replace_callback(
   '/<pre.*?>(.*?[<pre.*?>.*<\/pre>]*)<\/pre>/gism',
    create_function(
        // single quotes are essential here,
        // or alternative escape all $ as \$
        '$matches',
        '$geshi = new GeSHi($matches[0], \'php\'); return $geshi->parse_code()'
    ),
    Markdown($blog_res['message']));

Am i on the right track?

Is My Regex right? it works on http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

it was the regex :(

instead of

/<pre.*?>(.*?[<pre.*?>.*<\/pre>]*)<\/pre>/gism 

use (remove the global flag)

/<pre.*?>(.*?[<pre.*?>.*<\/pre>]*)<\/pre>/ism 

But if you are using markdown, you have to remember to compensate for the code blocks that are on thier own therefore you need to replace only the ones that are in the format of <pre><code>...MyCode</code></pre> and leave out Hello <code>MyCode</code> Therefore you need the following

'/<pre.*?><code.*?>(.*?[<pre.*?><code.*?>.*<\/code><\/pre>]*)<\/code><\/pre>/ism',

Answer 2

for future reference, you might want to check out my plugin for this:

https://github.com/drm/Markdown_Geshi

It is based on the regular markdown plugin adding a block marked with a shebang to highlight code, like this:

#!php
<?php print('This is PHP code'); ?>

Works pretty well and I use it on my own blog regularly.

Answer 3

I understand that you [were] looking to extend Markdown, adding support for GeSHi syntax highlighting. Beautify does this and more. For example, it can render graphs in DOT.

Beautify's approach to GeSHi code blocks differs from drm/Markdown_Geshi in that "fences" are used. For example:

~~~ php
<?php print('This is PHP code'); ?>
~~~

I'm not sure if Beautify was around back when this question was active, but it seemed worthy of mention in an answer.