<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >highlight_string</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Miscellaneous functions" HREF="ref.misc.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="highlight_file" HREF="function.highlight-file.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ignore_user_abort" HREF="function.ignore-user-abort.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.highlight-file.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ignore-user-abort.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.highlight-string" ></A >highlight_string</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN55636" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >highlight_string -- Syntax highlighting of a string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN55639" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >mixed <B CLASS="methodname" >highlight_string</B > ( string str [, bool return])<BR ></BR ><P > The <B CLASS="function" >highlight_string()</B > function outputs a syntax highlighted version of <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >str</I ></TT > using the colors defined in the built-in syntax highlighter for PHP. </P ><P > If the second parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >return</I ></TT > is set to <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > then <B CLASS="function" >highlight_string()</B > will return the highlighted code as a string instead of printing it out. If the second parameter is not set to <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > then <B CLASS="function" >highlight_string()</B > will return <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >return</I ></TT > parameter became available in PHP 4.2.0. Before this time it behaved like the default, which is <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.highlight-file.html" ><B CLASS="function" >highlight_file()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.show-source.html" ><B CLASS="function" >show_source()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.highlight-file.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ignore-user-abort.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >highlight_file</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.misc.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ignore_user_abort</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >