Best server side syntax highlighting solution (in PHP)

Question

Do you guys know a syntax highlighter capable of highlighting mixed PHP+HTML+CSS+JS code?

like:

<?php
 echo 'foo';
?>
<div> foo </div>
<style type="text/css">
  .foo {color: #3d3;}
</style>

I only know GeShi so far. It's pretty cool, but it only supports one language at a time.

Are you looking for an IDE or you want to highlight code in a web page you are rendering? — Darin Dimitrov, Apr 02 '11 at 18:09
@Alexndra, great, thanks for the clarification. I guess I didn't read your question carefully. — Darin Dimitrov, Apr 02 '11 at 18:12
i know this doesn't do fully what you want, but there is something to be said for the php highlight_string() function. — dqhendricks, Apr 02 '11 at 18:14
also, most people use client side javascript solutions for this, because highlighting string during output each time a page is requested is very taxing on a server, and highlighting on input makes future editing a pain. — dqhendricks, Apr 02 '11 at 18:16
possible duplicate of [PHP syntax highlighting](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230270/php-syntax-highlighting) — Gordon, Apr 02 '11 at 18:22

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '11 at 18:11

8

It's not PHP, but Pygments is awesome. And it is faster than GeShi, even used in PHP with the system()function.

answered Apr 02 '11 at 18:11

Artefact2

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There is an bridge for Pygments in PHP [PHPygments](https://github.com/capy/PHPygments) and is well documented – Capy Apr 22 '13 at 21:19
That's good to know, it did not exist two years ago when I wrote this answer. – Artefact2 Apr 23 '13 at 20:05

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