Re: Wrapping code inside [code]xxx[/code] tags.

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:06:44 +0100, you wrote: >I have on my site a part where users' can submit articles and no doubt their >articles will contain code. Code is wrapped inside of [code] tags, i.e. >[code]<?php echo "hi"; ?>[/code] > >However, there is other text in the same article, so I need to format the >code inside of the [code] and [/code] tags using htmlspecialchars, nl2br and >highlight_file and the rest of the code needs to be formatted with nl2br, >strip_tags and possibly stripslashes/wordwrap. I'd suggest using string-handling functions (explode, split, preg_split, etc) to chop the incoming text into seperate code and text blocks. Then use highlight_string() (not highlight_file()) on the code blocks.