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Date modified - May 5, 2009

Recently, I had a problem with the Text Highlighter obtained from the PHP PEAR repository. I thought I was following all the instructions but it seemed the code was not highlighting the text with color (i.e. beautifying it). Here are the steps I took to get the Text_Highlighter working on this site:

1) First you need to install the PEAR TEXT_HIGHLIGHTER here:PEAR PHP Text_Highlighter

Type this: pear install Text_Highlighter-0.7.1 (or whatever is the latest, stable version and replace with the appropriate numbers). I had a problem with Bluehost.com where I currently host some of my websites. I ran this pear install Text_Highlighter-0.7.1 via PuTTY;however, I received an error that the Text Highlighter files could not be found. So I attempted to change the php.ini file on the line include_path but it didn't work. So I used the PHP set_include_path() function as so:

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<?php
    $path = "{path/to/PEAR}";
    $set = set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);
?>

2) Then I set a require_once() function to the Text Highlighter file. I placed the following code right after my body tags:

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<?php
    require_once "Text/Highlighter.php";
    require_once "Text/Highlighter/Renderer/Html.php";
    $renderer = new Text_Highlighter_Renderer_Html(array("numbers" => HL_NUMBERS_LI, "tabsize" => 4));
?>

The $render object set by Text_Highlighter_Renderer_Html() sets numbers for each line of code and the othe r option sets the tabs for easier reading. I haven't quite figured out how the tab works though. When I figure this out I'll post the solution. Right after the above code I set all the variables for each specific programming language as so:

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<?php
    $hiHtml =& Text_Highlighter::factory("HTML");
    $hiHtml->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiCss =& Text_Highlighter::factory("CSS");
    $hiCss->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiPhp =& Text_Highlighter::factory("PHP");
    $hiPhp->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiDtd =& Text_Highlighter::factory("DTD");
    $hiDtd->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiJava =& Text_Highlighter::factory("Java");
    $hiJava->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiJavascript =& Text_Highlighter::factory("Javascript");
    $hiJavascript->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiMySql =& Text_Highlighter::factory("MySQL");
    $hiMySql->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiPerl =& Text_Highlighter::factory("Perl");
    $hiPerl->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiPython =& Text_Highlighter::factory("Python");
    $hiPython->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiRuby =& Text_Highlighter::factory("Ruby");
    $hiRuby->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiSql =& Text_Highlighter::factory("SQL");
    $hiSql->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiVbScript =& Text_Highlighter::factory("VBSCRIPT");
    $hiVbScript->setRenderer($renderer);
    $hiXml =& Text_Highlighter::factory("XML");
    $hiXml->setRenderer($renderer);
?>

To implement the highlighting in your code all you need to do is:

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<?php
echo $hiHtml->highlight("<p>This is a sample of displaying and preformatting HTML code to display properly and that validates under W3C standards.</p>
    <div>This is a div tag. I've used the character entities for the HTML P tage and in the DIV tag</div>
    <div>In this div tag I've used the numbered entities for the less than and greater than signs. Though you can't see it displayed in the browser you can check in the source code of the browser.</div>")
?>

Add CSS file to Text_Highlighter PHP PEAR code:

I found the only way to highlight the code is the add the CSS code found from a link on Sitepoint-PHP Text Highlighter. From there I found a link to a CSS file for PEAR's Text Highlighter. Include this CSS file in your <head> section like so:

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles/hilight.css" media="screen" type="text/css" />

Using Single Quotes Within highlight function of PHP PEAR:

I found a slight differenc when using single quotes for the highlight function and double-quotes. I use the single quotes immediately within the highlight function and double-quotes for the rest of the characters such as for attributes. Notice the first highlight:

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<span style="font:15px;">Notice the single quotes just within the brackets. As well, notice the double-quotes within the style attribute.</span>
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<span style='font:15px;'>Notice the single quotes just within the brackets. As well, notice the double-quotes within the style attribute.</span>

I hope this helps someone. Happy coding!

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