@neilmiddleton » GeSHI http://neilmiddleton.com in more than 140 characters Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:59:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ColdFusion Code highlighting with GeSHI http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/01/21/coldfusion-code-highlighting-with-geshi/ http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/01/21/coldfusion-code-highlighting-with-geshi/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:24:06 +0000 Neil http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/01/21/coldfusion-code-highlighting-with-geshi/ If like me, you are a ColdFusion developer using Wordpress as their blogging engine, you might have a need to occaisionally put code samples into your blog posts. With tools like Ray Camden’s BlogCFC and ASFusion’s Mango, this is very easy as they have been designed to do this from the start. However, in Wordpress you need to do some fiddling first.

Ultimately there are a few code highlighters out there that you can use, and I have chosen to use CodeViewer, which lets me upload files of code that then get converted into a nice highlighted form. From here I have a variety of options of things like allowing you guys to download that code in it’s raw form. The highlighting is done via another plugin called GeSHI, the Generic Syntax Highlighter. This is a long term open source project designed to create a PHP based syntax highlighter that can be used from a number of other applications (such as Wordpress) and supports a vast range of languages such as AS3, T-SQL, ColdFusion and others.

However, after saying all this, the currently bundled CFML parser does not contain any of the new CF8 syntax, and has only a limited number of attributes listed. Therefore, I have sat down and updated the language file to include all CF8 tags, functions and attributes, which means that should you be using GeSHI, you should have no real problems with any of the new CF8 syntax.

To download the file, click here. I have also sent off the file to the GeSHI admins in the hope that they can include it in a future release. If you can see any problems, and need some help, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Download CF8 GeSHI Language File

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