Syntax highlighting

[Sarteck]

I am trying to change the default PHP Syntax highlighting for [PHP][/PHP] codes.

Looking at includes/class_bbcode.php at line 1736, I see that it uses the PHP function highlight_string() ( http://php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php ).


As far as I can tell, this is supposed to get the values from my php.ini:

highlight.string  = #DD0000
highlight.comment = #FF3399
highlight.keyword = #007700
highlight.bg      = #FFFFFF
highlight.default = #4455DD
highlight.html    = #024FB7

Those ones in particular. Just to see what is what and if it was working like I thought, I changed the Comment value from the default orange to a bright purple.


Next, I restarted my php-fastcgi.

I thought the changes would take, but when I loaded (even with a hard refresh) a page with posts that have PHP code, nothing was changed.




The reason I believe this might be a vB problem is because I then made a test file that used the highlight_string() function, and is spat out the comments as an ugly bright purple.

However, I cannot see how it could be a vB problem, since it uses the exact same function to retrieve the INI values. The only thing I can think of is, "is there somewhere in the vB files that sets those INI highlight settings?"

If that's the case, then it would make sense--the code-set INI settings would replace anything in my INI file, correct?

Could anyone tell me if that's the case?







Alternatively, is there a Mod out for syntax highlighting that you would recommend?