GeSHi
Encyclopedia
GeSHi or Generic Syntax Highlighter is a free
software library
that allows syntax highlighting of source code
for several markup
and programming language
s. The program is written in PHP
and is bundled or available as an add-on in popular web-based applications, such as Dokuwiki
, Mambo, MediaWiki
(see extension), phpBB
and WikkaWiki
. Wikipedia
uses GeSHi as its primary syntax highlighter.
board system. Later, it was made to work without a phpBB as a stand-alone
library.
After a long time of inactivity the project was handed over to Benny Baumann on March 15, 2008.
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
software library
Library (computer science)
In computer science, a library is a collection of resources used to develop software. These may include pre-written code and subroutines, classes, values or type specifications....
that allows syntax highlighting of source code
Source code
In computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...
for several markup
Markup language
A markup language is a modern system for annotating a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that text. The idea and terminology evolved from the "marking up" of manuscripts, i.e. the revision instructions by editors, traditionally written with a blue pencil on authors' manuscripts...
and programming language
Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
s. The program is written in PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
and is bundled or available as an add-on in popular web-based applications, such as Dokuwiki
DokuWiki
DokuWiki is a wiki application aimed at small companies’ documentation needs. DokuWiki is licensed under GPL 2 and written in the programming language PHP. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.-History:DokuWiki was created by...
, Mambo, MediaWiki
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...
(see extension), phpBB
PhpBB
phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board...
and WikkaWiki
WikkaWiki
WikkaWiki is a free, lightweight, and standards-compliant wiki engine. Written in PHP, it uses MySQL to store pages. WikkaWiki is a fork of Wakka Wiki to which a number of new features have been added...
. Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
uses GeSHi as its primary syntax highlighter.
Features
Among its notable features:- Fully CSSCSS-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...
-driven output - Support about 140 markup and programming languages
- Extensibility via custom language files
- XHTMLXHTMLXHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written....
1.1 and CSS Level 2CSS-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...
compliance - Auto-caps/noncaps of keywords
- Line numbering
- Word wrapping
- Automatic generation of links to programming language documentation
History
GeSHi was originally designed as a module to introduce syntax highlighting in the phpBBPhpBB
phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board...
board system. Later, it was made to work without a phpBB as a stand-alone
Stand-alone
Standalone software can mean:* Computer software that can work offline, i.e. does not necessarily require network connection to function* Software that is not a part of some software bundle...
library.
After a long time of inactivity the project was handed over to Benny Baumann on March 15, 2008.
Software which utilises GeSHi to colour files
- ObserviumObserviumObservium is a PHP/MySQL-based Network Observation and Monitoring System which collects data from devices using SNMP and presents it via a web interface. It makes heavy use of the RRDtool package. Observium has a number of simple core design goals driving its development: minimum interaction,...
- WebSVN
- DokuwikiDokuWikiDokuWiki is a wiki application aimed at small companies’ documentation needs. DokuWiki is licensed under GPL 2 and written in the programming language PHP. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.-History:DokuWiki was created by...