Colorize code inside <code></code> [closed]

Question

I'm looking for a open source PHP script to colorize the code inside

<code></code> 

or

[code][/code] tags.

Thanks

Answer 1

You could also try a clientside/javascript highlighter: Google Code Prettify

• Supports all C-like, Bash-like, and XML-like languages.

(This is the one used on stackoverflow.com/ and code.google.com/)

Answer 2

Assuming you want something other than the built-in syntax highlighter, GeSHi looks like it might fit your requirements:

GeSHi started as an idea to create a generic syntax highlighter for the phpBB forum system, but has been generalised to this project. GeSHi aims to be a simple but powerful highlighting class, with the following goals:

• Support for a wide range of popular languages
• Easy to add a new language for highlighting
• Highly customisable output formats

Answer 3

PHP has some built in functions for this purpose. Check if highlight_string or highlight_file will work for you

http://www.php.net/highlight_file

http://www.php.net/highlight_string