This extension allows source code to be syntax highlighted on the wiki pages. This README file might be out of date, have a look at the extension page for updated informations: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi == Requirements == This version of the extension has been tested with GeSHi 1.0.8.10 and MediaWiki 1.18 as of 2011-02-19. It may or may not work with earlier versions of the aforementioned software. To get releases of this extension compatible with earlier versions of MediaWiki, visit: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi == Installation == If you downloaded this from MediaWiki.org, there should already be a 'geshi' directory in this folder. If there is, you can skip the next paragraph. Download the latest stable build from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114997, and unzip it into your extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/ directory. (Note: the zip file creates a sub-directory called geshi/, and places a file geshi.php there) Add this line to your LocalSettings.php: require_once("extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php"); If your MediaWiki software is obtained via Subversion, then the latest build can be downloaded via the Subversion repository. First of all, is to switch into your extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/ directory. Then invoke the command to obtain the latest build of the GeSHi code: svn checkout https://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/ geshi If needed, change the following line on SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.class.php to suit the path of your geshi.php file require_once( 'geshi/geshi.php' ); == Usage == On the wiki page, you can now use "source" elements: html text == Parameters == Please see the documentation of GeSHi on http://qbnz.com/highlighter/geshi-doc.html for detailed information to use some of the parameters. * lang; Defines the language * line; Corresponds to enable_line_numbers method on GeSHi * start; Corresponds to start_line_numbers_at method on GeSHi * strict; Corresponds to enable_strict_mode method on GeSHi == Note == GeSHi is generous about creating HTML elements: highlighting large blocks of code can easily generate enough of them to crash a browser. As a guard, symbol highlighting is turned off for code fragments larger than 100 kB. For fragments larger than 200 kB, string highlighting is turned off as well.