Extension:SyntaxHighlight

This extension adds the source tag to present formatted source code.

Installation
Download the extension from the Subversion repository and save it into the extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi of your wiki. If you have shell access to your server, you may do the following to download the extension: cd extensions svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

Download the latest stable build of GeSHi, and unzip it inside the extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi directory. (Note: the zip file creates a sub-directory called geshi/, and places the file geshi.php there - GeSHi 1.1.2alpha3 does not!)

The geshi.php file can also be downloaded from the Subversion repository in SourceForge.net: cd SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi svn co http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/ ln -s src/ geshi
 * 1) add a link to make it work without changing code

(Note: You you need both - the mediawiki plugin files and the geshi files from sourceforge to make it work!)

Add this line to your LocalSettings.php:

If needed, change the following line in SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.class.php to suit the path of your geshi.php file

Usage
On the wiki page, you can now use "source" elements:

C# Example
Results in:

PHP Example
Results in:

Python Example
Results in:

Fortran Example
bugs:
 * comments for fortran77 do not work (line starts with C)

Results in:

Parameters

 * lang: Defines the language
 * line: Corresponds to enable_line_numbers method on GeSHi
 * start: Corresponds to start_line_numbers_at method on GeSHi


 * enclose: Corresponds to set_header_type method on GeSHi
 * strict: Corresponds to enable_strict_mode method on GeSHi

The effect and usage of these parameters can be consulted in GeSHi's documentation.

Since r22246, you can override the colors using MediaWiki:GeSHi.css.

Supported languages
These are the languages known by GeSHi that can be used in the lang parameter: