Code Display Help

[jjb123]

Hi everyone, first of I just want to say I am new here so please forgive my lack of advanced php skill.

I am trying to run a tutorial website that requires a [code ] like function, I have tried everything I can thing of but nothing works, ether the quotes get messed up or the code does. I was just wondering if someone can point me in the direction of a tutorial to make a php and code display parser like the one on php freaks, that lets php and other code be displayed without being parsed.

 

Thank you.

[Barand]

Are you looking for something like

 

http://www.php.net/highlight_string

[jjb123]

Yes, I already know of that function. What I am asking for is a system that when I enter something like

 it will convert it to entities and highlight it if it is php. Kinda like bbcode.

[jjb123]

Ok, I got it. I used:

 

function fetchCode( $code ){
//config
$prefix = "<center><div class=\"codehead\">Code:</div><div class=\"code\">"; //HTML code to add before your code, to add a markup
$suffix = "</div></center>"; //HTML code to close prefix
$return = stripslashes($code);
$return = highlight_string($return, true);
$return = $prefix . $return . $suffix;
return $return;
}