Syntax Highlighting for Programming Code

JimSculley · May 13, 2021, 1:03pm

The Jive forum included a syntax highlighting tool for posting code. Very helpful. There is a phpBB 3.3 plugin that does this sort of thing:

It’s still in BETA but the install/uninstall looks straightforward. Any chance this can be installed so we can take it for a test drive?

matt · June 27, 2021, 12:34pm

Notice a little late, but for reference, this has been activated. I don’t know how to use it, but it should let you fotmst code in the post editor box.

JimSculley · June 28, 2021, 11:45am

To use it, you simply wrap the code in ‘code’ tags and put the name of the programming language as an attribute. So this:

[ code=java]
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(Stringargs) {
System.out.println(“Hello World!”);
}
}
[ /code]

becomes this:

public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[ ]args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }
}

mattpeneguy · June 28, 2021, 1:10pm

To use it, you simply wrap the code in ‘code’ tags and put the name of the programming language as an attribute. So this:

[ code=java]
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(Stringargs) {
System.out.println(“Hello World!”);
}
}
[ /code]

becomes this:
public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[ ]args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }
}

Pfft…Who still uses Java?..Regardless, this functionality doesn’t work for me…:
[ code=c64]
LOAD"SOLIDWORKS",8,1
[ /code]

JimSculley · June 28, 2021, 1:24pm

Because c64 is a platform, not a language. Try ‘basic’:

LOAD"SOLIDWORKS",8,1