Tom Whitbread wrote:
> Can anyone explain why this is happening.
>
> I am using the following code For giving code examples on my website
> with syntax highlighting
>
> $text = '<?php \$my_code = "echo 'text text text text'; \$foo =
> 'bar';"; example_function(\$my_code); ?>';
This is not a valid PHP statement.
The ' directly before 'text text text text' will match the first ', and
the rest of this is gibberish.
Let's assume, however, that you actually have \ in front of each embedded
' in your string.
To avoid confusion, I'd also change each \$ to \\$ so that it is clear
that you want the \ to be embedded in your string.
> $body = preg_replace('/<(.*?)>/es', 'highlight_string("<\\1>",
> true)', $text);
At this point, you are replacing HTML entities < and > with their
corresponding charactes < and > which is fine, I suppose, but...
> echo $body; //Returns: <?php = 'echo \'text text text text\'\'; =
> \'bar\'; highlight_string(, true); ?>
Here you are *NOT* going to see the PHP source, because to the *BROWSER*
the < and > look like an HTML tag.
The browsers will simply IGNORE tags they don't understand and won't
display/do anything with them.
> //I want: <?php $my_code = "echo 'text text text text'; $foo = 'bar';";
> example_function($my_code); ?>
You may or may not need to NOT do the ereg_replace you are doing, and you
may or may not want to use http://php.net/htmlentities and/or
http://php.net/highlight_string
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