SyntaxHighlighter

A MediaWiki extension allowing source code to be syntax highlighted.

A simple wrapper of SyntaxHighlighter javascript library by Alex Gorbatchev.

http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

SyntaxHighlighter is released under the terms of the MIT license.

Supporting Languages

Some of the supported languages and corresponding lang parameters are shown below. For the full list, please refer the SyntaxHighlighter site. the lang parameter in the source should be set to one of the aliases. Else, it will automatically render the plain text mode.

C++ : cpp, c C# : csharp, c-sharp CSS : css PHP : php XML : xml, html, xhtml Python : python, py Java : java Javascript : jscript, js, javascript

Other Parameters

Besides the lang parameter, it supports all parameters used in SyntaxHighlighter library. In fact, our extension only passes the parameters from the source tag and pass it to SyntaxHighlight. If you want to see the supported parameters, please refer the SyntaxHighlight configuration page.

Usage

On a wiki page, you can use "source" tags.

<source lang="javascript">
// SyntaxHighlighter makes your code snippets beautiful without tiring your servers.
// http://alexgorbatchev.com
var setArray = function(elems) {
    this.length = 0;
    push.apply(this, elems);
    return this;
}
</source>

Installation

The source code is hosted on Github and versioned using the Git tool (not SVN). So, you'll need Git to download or update the sources. Once git is installed, you can download the extension issuing the following command in the extensions/ directory:

git clone git://github.com/seongjaelee/SyntaxHighlighter.git

That would create directory SyntaxHighlighter/, which contains the needed files, right under extensions/.

If you don't want to be bothered, you can just download the zip file from the following address:

https://github.com/seongjaelee/SyntaxHighlighter/zipball/master

Unzip the downloaded file in the extensions/ directory, and change the name of directory to SyntaxHighlighter/.

Finally, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/SyntaxHighlighter/SyntaxHighlighter.php");

Many other syntax highlighting extensions also share source tag, so if you already use one, uncomment it from LocalSettings.php file.

Options

It also provides user-configurable options that goes to SyntaxHighlighter.defaults.

For example, you can add the following to the LocalSettings.php.

$wgSyntaxHighlighterOptions['smart-tabs'] = 'true';