color-coded code on the message board

[johnrcornell]

Hi guys,

 

I'm new here (obviously.) When I use the [ code ] [ / code ] markup I only get plainol boring black-and-white code. But everyone else gets to have this neato color coding on their posts. What markup do I use to enable that on your forum? Hope this question is in the right place. Thank you for any help!

 

Ricky

[wildteen88]

It is enabled by default. Currently it only highlights PHP code. Eg:

<?php

// echo hello world message
echo "hello world";

?>

 

You must enclose your PHP within <?php and  ?> tags in order for the colour highlighting to work.

 

If you wish to have HTML, CSS, Javascript etc highlighted as well then perhaps see if the SMF developers can include this feature into the next release of SMF.

[448191]

You can also use [ php ], which looks like this:

 

echo 'Hello World';

[Daniel0]

I prefer the

 tags to the [php] tags simply because the [code] will have a monospaced font and it gives you a box which will have scrollbars if it is long code.