Does anyone know of a way to markup source code when posting on a web page? What I mean is, GIDForums has the special bbcode that marks up C, Java, Python, etc. source code so it's easy to read, just like an IDE. Is there a way to simulate this on a web page?

I've thought about using CSS but I'd still have to manually "tag" each item in the code. Could a server-side script do this? If so, how would the logic work? I don't see how you could put the source code on a page and tell a script to parse it (of course, my programming skills are lacking right now ).

It's not critical that I get something to work. I just thought it would look better than having something that looks like the generic "code" you get from bbcode. I've looked online but haven't found anything.

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What I do is use Regular Expressions to find the bbcodes within a post.

So assume a post like this is submitted


The first step is to place a marker where the code was found and send the example code to the syntax highlighter class or function.

At this stage, the text posted will look something like this


and the string sent to the CPP syntax highlighter is


The syntax highlighter will process this string and add the 'colouring' by inserting the appropriate html tags. After processing, it will look like


Just before you display the post on a web page, you run it by htmlspecialchars() and put the markers back... simple?

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Sounds simple enough. I'll mess around with it and see what I can break.

Thanks for the info.

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