Introducing EE-Syntax
EE-Syntax is a code syntax highlighter for ExpressionEngine 2. EE-Syntax is a server side parser that uses Geshi for the highlighting so it supports any language that Geshi supports over 190 different programming languages. The specific goal with EE-Syntax was to enable me to write about code and since ExpressionEngine didn't have a server side syntax parser for ExpressionEngine 2 it just made sense to write a module.EE-Syntax is a fork of WP-Syntax, the WordPress plugin, and hence is licensed under the GPL. Because it's built using WP-Syntax conventions any WordPress site that uses that plugin can have it's data imported into ExpressionEngine and have EE-Syntax still format and style their code without any issues.
Note that this is more a soft release right now; because this a 100% free and GPL licensed add-on it's taking a little bit of time to do an official release with it's own section and documentation sections with this site. For now, please use the below as a base.
Usage Example
EE-Syntax works by using template tags combined with HTML markup within an entry. For the template, you wrap the code you want to highlight like the below:{exp:ee_syntax:add_head} {exp:ee_syntax:filter} {content_with_code} {/exp:ee_syntax:filter}
Then, within your entries, you'll want to ensure the formatting is set to None and mark up your code like the below:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | <pre lang="php" line="1"> if($foo) { } elseif($bar) { } </pre> |
Hi Eric,
I’m trying this out and have a small problem when trying to display ExpressionEngine code in that it turns all the { and } into entities { and }. I’m also getting {path=/{url_title}} outputting http://siteurl.com/{url_title} but that seems to be an EE problem as I get that whether I’m using {exp:ee_syntax:filter} or not.