I've written a simple code highlighter helper, http://www.gignus.com/blog/posts/view/11 that uses GeSHi.
Maybe you can make use of it to highlight your code. You would have to create a new button in tinyMCE that wraps your code in <pre class="code php"></pre> or <pre class="code javascript"></pre> or whatever language (supported by GeSHi) that you want to highlight and then parse all the text with this helper. -- Matias Lespiau http://www.gignus.com/ On Jan 31, 2008 9:31 AM, grigri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Markdown does indeed preserve indentation, because code blocks are > wrapped in <pre> tags. Syntax hilighting is another matter... > > I used to really like Markdown, because it's very readable. > Unfortunately, (I feel) this comes at a price: loss of flexibility. > While > adding support to a bbCode parsing engine for '[php]...[/php]' tags is > easy, adding stuff to markdown is difficult. I find it particularly > annoying that there's no way to specify css classes for elements, for > example. > > I've heard people rave about Flay, though I've never used it myself. > WikiCode looks horribly complicated, but I'm sure it isn't really. > > For an example of one way of handling code snippets in articles, > download the code for the bakery. It's far from perfect, but it has > its good points! > > On Jan 31, 12:12 pm, "dr. Hannibal Lecter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi grigri, > > > > actually, that might halp me :-) > > > > I must agree with you on WYSIWYG, they mostly turn out to be > > disappointments. WYMeditor seems promising, but it is still unusable > > in "real life". > > > > Markup format is indeed a very good suggestion, very tempting. But I'm > > not sure if that will solve my problems. How will Markdown handle the > > code snippets exactly? How to preserve indentation etc.. is it a built > > in feature or do I need to hack it? > > > > Thanks for a prompt reply! > > > > > If the users on your website that use the article submission are > > > expected to add code snippets, it's probably a given that they are > > > coders of some form or another, so getting them to use some markup > > > format shouldn't be too hard. bbCode, Flay, Markdown, WikiCode, ... > > > there's a lot out there, and they all work fine. > > > > > If you deem this as too "old-school" then write an ajax-based auto- > > > preview or something like that. There's always room for more 2.0 > > > > > Like I said, this probably won't help you if you're determined to use > > > wysiwyg, but it's my £0.0100332 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
