[Trac] Creating a mimeviewer for php files

[Clay Loveless]

On 4/6/05 9:27 AM Pacific Time, Christian Boos (cboos at bct-technology.com)
wrote:

> The trick is to change the __init__.py file in the mimeviewers folder so
> that the php.py mime
>  processor can be loaded.
> 
> Anyway, that's now part of the trunk [1500].
> It works for me on Linux, but I suspect that it won't be the case on Windows
> (I don't have php on Windows).

Yeah, I tried playing around with __init__.py I'm running on Debian Linux,
and wasn't able to get the php.py file working. I think that's because of
the SilverCity issue ... Even when I put 'php' before 'silvercity' in
__init__.py, I still wind up with nothing. I even did a version with
'silvercity' removed entirely from __init__.py, and that didn't help either.

For the record, I did perform a 'python setup.py install' after each change
to the files in the mimeviewers directory. : )

>> The php.py file from ticket 984 seems to include code from the enscript.py
>> mimeviewer ... That seems like it shouldn't really be necessary, since "php
>> -s" puts out marked-up source by itself.
>>  
>> 
> The original patch used the 'Deuglifier' class, to replace font element
> with given color
> by span elements of the appropriate class. The color codes needed to be
> adapted
> for PHP. I'll put basic support for adaptation in place, but as I know
> nothing about PHP's
> syntax (<?flamewar echo "except it's ugly" :) ?>), it could need further
> adaptation.

Ah ... Well, if 'php -s' is a PHP5 executable, there's no need for that
munging, as syntax coloring in PHP5 is done with <span> tags instead of
<font> tags.

The point of doing this via php -s is that the highlighter doesn't need to
have any knowledge of PHP syntax. There are only 5 or so highlight colors
used by PHP's highlighter, so replacing those five specific font tags (from
PHP 4 output) should be all the knowledge needed.

There are a few 'xhtml_highlight' functions with string replacements to
convert PHP 4 highlight output to XHTML-friendly output here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php

I appreciate your efforts, Christian -- hope to be able to get something
working here. (Any idea how to remove the SilverCity installation? Pulling
the SilverCity directory out of my site-packages directory didn't do the
trick, I don't think.)

Thanks,
Clay

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