Comments on: WordPress Code Highlight Plugin

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:30:35 +0000

Arno: I just tried that PHP code here and it works fine. Code in comments is buggy (as you could have figured from reading previous commenters). I will fix bugs when I have spare time, which is little, especially at this time of year. Note to anyone: this plugin is GPL’ed. Anyone can take what I have done and add features/bug fixes to it as they wish. It’s a relatively small plugin, the bulk of the functionality resides in the PEAR packages.

The plugin is released simply because some people might find it useful. You must understand that, as pointed out in the blog post, the plugin is unsupported and does not follow a release schedule. If it does not work for you or you have a problem with these “terms”, then obviously this is not something you should use.

I’m sorry I don’t have unlimited time to support and update things that I have unconditionally released for public use. I have a life, a job and things of greater importance. If you think my time and efforts, which I give away freely without asking for anything in return, belong in your trashcan: so be it. But I do ask a simple favor: do not come to my site and mock me.

By: Arno Simon

Arno Simon — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:13:29 +0000

Well…. That’s what I understand by supporting your own tools! Great work, Chris! I think the next place your tool will see at my PC ist the Trashcan.

regards

Arno

By: sn0n

sn0n — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:35:29 +0000

and of course the second i open my mouth, it works.. :: inserts foot ::

By: sn0n

sn0n — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:33:37 +0000

I’m having a problem with escape characters (the backslash n) and what not, any way to fix that? love the plugin otherwise, its just makin me adapt my code to a plugin. know what i mean? get back to me.. thnx!!!

love the plugin btw..

By: Arno Simon

Arno Simon — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:52:02 +0000

ups.. Sorry…. at “I added a” I entered a code-tag with >?php echo “some php code”& ?<..

Just the code disappears on your site, too.

After “Instead” (sorry for misspelling…) I wrote: Instead of highlightning the source a blank appears between > and ? so your parser will not longer detect propper php-code, I asume. Is that correct?

What do you think, which other plugin will fire in front of yours?

reg.

Arno

By: Arno Simon

Arno Simon — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:46:50 +0000

Hello Chris,

I just installed your tool on my website. Unlikly it seems not to work.

I added a
[code lang="php"][/code]
to an static page. The frame and the code appears… even there’s nothing highlighted. Insted of ‘

By: minkoo.seo

minkoo.seo — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:14:08 +0000

Ah, I forgot to mention that the problem is related to CodeHighlight which I love very much.

By: minkoo.seo

minkoo.seo — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:13:10 +0000

Hello Chris. My name is Minkoo Seo, and I’ve found some important security problem. Could you email me? I can’t find your email address, so I’m writing to you using comment.

By: Robert Smallshire

Robert Smallshire — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:41:45 +0000

Regarding the problem with unnecessary vertical scroll bars in with code that shouldn’t be long enough to trigger the vertical scroll. This seems to be triggered by lines of code which are sufficiently long to trigger the horizontal scroll bar. When the horizontal scroll bar is triggered, the vertical scroll bar it triggered too.

The workaround it to avoid having long lines of code that trigger the horizontal scrollbar.

Hope this helps somebody. I’m no CSS expert but is there don’t seem to be separate vertical/horizontal settings for the overflow attribute in h1-surround.

Hope this helps somebody!

By: Treedent

Treedent — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:46:13 +0000

On my local installation the plugin works fine with all the PEAR packages descibe at the top of this page, but I use a shared server for my online web blog and some php function have been disabled for obscur security reasons such as the ini_set function.
This function is used to add the PEAR path to the php include_path, in the “CodeHighlight.php” file :

::HLIGHT_BLOCK_1::

So the activation of the “code hilight” plugin generates error.

To correct the problem, I try to specify the real path of the PEAR folder, everywhere it’s needed :

- in CodeHighlight.php
- in Highlighter.php

And the activation of the plugin works fine.

The problem now is that the “highligth” function generate an error like “Call to undefined function: highlight()” in the “CodeHighlight.php” file at line 145 :

::HLIGHT_BLOCK_2::

How could I do to make the highlight function visible ?