Exts:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi

Usage

On the wiki page, you can now use "source" elements:

<source lang="php">
<?php
    $v = "string";    // sample initialization
?>
html text
<?
    echo $v;         // end of php code
?>
</source>

Parameters

• lang: Defines the language
• line: Corresponds to enable_line_numbers method on GeSHi
• start: Corresponds to start_line_numbers_at method on GeSHi
• enclose: Corresponds to set_header_type method on GeSHi
• strict: Corresponds to enable_strict_mode method on GeSHi

The effect and usage of these parameters can be consulted in GeSHi's documentation.

Since r22246, you can override the colors using [[MediaWiki:GeSHi.css]].

Examples

C#

<source lang="csharp">
// Hello World in Microsoft C# ("C-Sharp").

using System;

class HelloWorld
{
    public static int Main(String[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
        return 0;
    }
}
</source>

Results in:

// Hello World in Microsoft C# ("C-Sharp").
 
using System;
 
class HelloWorld
{
    public static int Main(String[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
        return 0;
    }
}

PHP

<source lang="php">
<?php
  // Hello World in PHP
  echo 'Hello World!';
?>
</source>

Results in:

<?php
  // Hello World in PHP
  echo 'Hello World!';
?>

Python

<source lang="python">
# Hello World in Python

def main():
    print "Hello World!"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
</source>

Results in:

# Hello World in Python
 
def main():
    print "Hello World!"
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Fortran

bugs:

• comments for fortran77 do not work (line starts with C)

<source lang="fortran">
C *
C *testing this srcipt
C *
c * comments for fortran77 do not work!

hello = "Hello World!"

if hello .eq. 'test' then
 !do nothing
else
 !do something
 x = 1
endif
</source>

Results in:

C *
C *testing this srcipt
C *
c * comments for fortran77 do not work!
 
hello = "Hello World!"
 
if hello .eq. 'test' then
 !do nothing
else
 !do something
 x = 1
endif

Supported languages

These are the languages known by GeSHi that can be used in the lang parameter:

See also

• GeSHiCodeTag - A working alternative extension that also uses Geshi
• GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter
• ASHighlight (MediaWiki support for Andre Simon's highlight<tt> utility)
• Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi extension - An extension to SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi. Enables external file inclusion.
• Extension:Geshi includes every component - no additional downloads

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