php with hypertext

[ufku]

i tried to combine php syntax with html syntax for html containing php files. the result is just a broken head.
i added php functions and keywords to html syntax. it didnt help. i added a <? ?> block with higlight keywords. it didnt help.
i tried the reverse in which i added tags to php syntax. again i got nothing.

if the tags are in action, the rest are considered as plain text. there is no way to higlight keywords in that text. i tried defining php blocks(BlockAsString=no, BlockOnLine=No, BlockStart=<?, BlockEnd=?>) but it didnt work.

i think if the engine considered "<?php" as a tag, there would be a situation like the javascript tag in which the keywords are higlighted. am i wrong?

[Rickard Johansson]

Maybe it's better to use multiple highlighters. Maybe a line in the Html syntax file that loads the PHP syntax as well. Whenever a <?php is encountered the PHP syntax kicks in, and when the > is encountered the HTML syntax is used again. Just a thought.

[jerry1970]

Maybe it's better to use multiple highlighters. Maybe a line in the Html syntax file that loads the PHP syntax as well. Whenever a <?php is encountered the PHP syntax kicks in, and when the > is encountered the HTML syntax is used again. Just a thought.

Sounds great! But don't forget that the HTML syntax should be taken up where it was left off. For example:

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<p>Hello, <b><?php echo $name; ?></b>!

Or maybe a better example:

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<font size="<?php echo $fontsize; ?>">Hello!</font>

EditPlus has these syntax file directives:
#HTML_EMBEDDED=y
#SCRIPT_BEGIN=<?
#SCRIPT_END=?>

Jerry

[Rickard Johansson]

I'm not sure about the PHP highlighting inside a string. I think a string should be highlighted as a string. Anything else just seems wrong, some how.

[jerry1970]

I'm not sure about the PHP highlighting inside a string. I think a string should be highlighted as a string. Anything else just seems wrong, some how.

When I'm programming PHP, I am *very* glad to see the PHP code syntax coloured as PHP code, and not as an HTML string. PHP is embedded into HTML - both should be separate entities and thus have their own syntax colouring.

Jerry

[Rickard Johansson]

PHP is embedded into HTML - both should be separate entities and thus have their own syntax colouring.

Well, if you put it that way it accually sound reasonable.

[jerry1970]

PHP is embedded into HTML - both should be separate entities and thus have their own syntax colouring.

Well, if you put it that way it accually sound reasonable.

Hey, I am a programmer too, I am supposed to be able to make things sound logical and reasonable! :D