January 3, 2008
getting php markdown & SyntaxHighlighter to coexist…
filed mid-afternoon by DrScofield in: hacking, research
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SyntaxHighlighter is quite a nice wordpress plugin that provides syntax highlighting for a range of programming languages (among them my favorites python & C#). the problem is, in its original unadulterated form it doesn't play with my favorite markup plugin php markdown extra at all :-(

after quite a bit of hacking, it transpires that one can make them play nicely with one another. the idea that i pursued was to change the [source:XXX] tag to < source lang=XXX> and have php markdown treat it the same as the < pre> tag.1

getting markdown extra to recognize the < source> tag is fairly easy2, i needed to change to read

next, in the syntax plugin, all occurrences of [source: are replaced by < source lang=.

i've created ZIP files of the modified SyntaxHighlighter and Markdown Extra plugins, share and enjoy.

  1. to prevent any of the parsers from jumping on the tags, i've inserted a space between '<' and the tag name. ↩

  2. ...once you figure it out, that is. ↩

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