PHP Syntax Highlighting For Prism.js

I wanted to test the newly-released Prism.js since it promised clean markup and easy plugin development, but I found it was lacking a major feature for my own use: PHP Syntax Highlighting.

So, letting the code be my guide, I present an add-on to Prism.js less than 10 hours after it was released into the wild publicly.

Update: Instead of using the below code-blocks, you can just grab it from my forked repository. The repository has a few other updates and fixes.

The following code snippets can be added into an external .js file or the main prism.js file. The modifications are mainly for testing (read: kinda buggy) and released under the same license Prism itself is.

Add PHP Syntax Highlighting

Prism.languages.php = {
	'comment': {
		pattern: /(^|[^\\])(\/\*[\w\W]*?\*\/|\/\/.*?(\r?\n|$))/g,
		lookbehind: true
	},
	'deliminator': /(\?>|\?&gt;|&lt;\?php|<\?php)/ig,
	'variable': /(\$\w+)\b/ig,
	'string': /("|')(\\?.)*?\1/g,
	'regex': {
		pattern: /(^|[^/])\/(?!\/)(\[.+?]|\\.|[^/\r\n])+\/[gim]{0,3}(?=\s*($|[\r\n,.;})]))/g,
		lookbehind: true
	},
	'keyword': /\b(and|or|xor|array|as|break|case|cfunction|class|const|continue|declare|default|die|do|else|elseif|enddeclare|endfor|endforeach|endif|endswitch|endwhile|extends|for|foreach|function|include|include_once|global|if|new|return|static|switch|use|require|require_once|var|while|abstract|interface|public|implements|extends|private|protected|throw)\b/g,
	'function': /\b(abs|acos|acosh|addcslashes|addslashes|array_change_key_case|array_chunk|array_combine|array_count_values|array_diff|array_diff_assoc|array_diff_key|array_diff_uassoc|array_diff_ukey|array_fill|array_filter|array_flip|array_intersect|array_intersect_assoc|array_intersect_key|array_intersect_uassoc|array_intersect_ukey|array_key_exists|array_keys|array_map|array_merge|array_merge_recursive|array_multisort|array_pad|array_pop|array_product|array_push|array_rand|array_reduce|array_reverse|array_search|array_shift|array_slice|array_splice|array_sum|array_udiff|array_udiff_assoc|array_udiff_uassoc|array_uintersect|array_uintersect_assoc|array_uintersect_uassoc|array_unique|array_unshift|array_values|array_walk|array_walk_recursive|atan|atan2|atanh|base64_decode|base64_encode|base_convert|basename|bcadd|bccomp|bcdiv|bcmod|bcmul|bindec|bindtextdomain|bzclose|bzcompress|bzdecompress|bzerrno|bzerror|bzerrstr|bzflush|bzopen|bzread|bzwrite|ceil|chdir|checkdate|checkdnsrr|chgrp|chmod|chop|chown|chr|chroot|chunk_split|class_exists|closedir|closelog|copy|cos|cosh|count|count_chars|date|decbin|dechex|decoct|deg2rad|delete|ebcdic2ascii|echo|empty|end|ereg|ereg_replace|eregi|eregi_replace|error_log|error_reporting|escapeshellarg|escapeshellcmd|eval|exec|exit|exp|explode|extension_loaded|feof|fflush|fgetc|fgetcsv|fgets|fgetss|file_exists|file_get_contents|file_put_contents|fileatime|filectime|filegroup|fileinode|filemtime|fileowner|fileperms|filesize|filetype|floatval|flock|floor|flush|fmod|fnmatch|fopen|fpassthru|fprintf|fputcsv|fputs|fread|fscanf|fseek|fsockopen|fstat|ftell|ftok|getallheaders|getcwd|getdate|getenv|gethostbyaddr|gethostbyname|gethostbynamel|getimagesize|getlastmod|getmxrr|getmygid|getmyinode|getmypid|getmyuid|getopt|getprotobyname|getprotobynumber|getrandmax|getrusage|getservbyname|getservbyport|gettext|gettimeofday|gettype|glob|gmdate|gmmktime|ini_alter|ini_get|ini_get_all|ini_restore|ini_set|interface_exists|intval|ip2long|is_a|is_array|is_bool|is_callable|is_dir|is_double|is_executable|is_file|is_finite|is_float|is_infinite|is_int|is_integer|is_link|is_long|is_nan|is_null|is_numeric|is_object|is_readable|is_real|is_resource|is_scalar|is_soap_fault|is_string|is_subclass_of|is_uploaded_file|is_writable|is_writeable|mkdir|mktime|nl2br|parse_ini_file|parse_str|parse_url|passthru|pathinfo|readlink|realpath|rewind|rewinddir|rmdir|round|str_ireplace|str_pad|str_repeat|str_replace|str_rot13|str_shuffle|str_split|str_word_count|strcasecmp|strchr|strcmp|strcoll|strcspn|strftime|strip_tags|stripcslashes|stripos|stripslashes|stristr|strlen|strnatcasecmp|strnatcmp|strncasecmp|strncmp|strpbrk|strpos|strptime|strrchr|strrev|strripos|strrpos|strspn|strstr|strtok|strtolower|strtotime|strtoupper|strtr|strval|substr|substr_compare)\b/g,
	'constant': /\b(__FILE__|__LINE__|__METHOD__|__FUNCTION__|__CLASS__)\b/g,
	'boolean': /\b(true|false)\b/g,
	'number': /\b-?(0x)?\d*\.?\d+\b/g,
	'operator': /[-+]{1,2}|!|=?\<|=?\>;|={1,2}(?!>)|(\&){1,2}|\|?\||\?|\*|\//g,
	'punctuation': /[{}[\];(),.:]/g
};

Allow embedded HTML in PHP

if (Prism.languages.markup) {
	Prism.languages.insertBefore('php', 'comment', {
		'markup': {
			pattern: /(\?>|\?&gt;)[\w\W]*?(?=(&lt;\?php|<\?php))/ig,
			lookbehind : true,
			inside: {
				'markup': {
					pattern: /&lt;\/?[\w:-]+\s*[\w\W]*?&gt;/gi,
					inside: Prism.languages.markup.tag.inside
				},
				rest: Prism.languages.php
			}
		}
	});
}

NOTES / Warnings

This code adds several new language elements named: function, keyword, variable and constant that have no CSS attributed to them, so use this CSS somewhere.

.token.function, .token.constant {
	color: #07a;
}
.token.variable {
	color: #e90;
}

.token.deliminator {
	font-weight:bold;
}

This code has NOT been heavily tested, but has been run successfully against the following block of code:

/**
			Sample Block. 
			Author: Aaron Harun
			URL: http://aaron.md, http://aahacreative.com
		**/
    if(__FILE__){
        $explicitive = ($happyandyouknowit == false) ? ':(' : '! =D';
        // Stick in some HTML. 
        ?>
        	&ltstrong>Why,&lt/strong>
        &lt?php
        echo 'hello ' . "world" . addslashes($explicitive);
    }

It doesn’t cover PHP embedded in HTML yet, but it seems very easy to do. The Repository version has it.

And finally, Prism.js is not running on this site, yet. I’ll have to integrate it into WP before that’s possible. Integrated with WP. Booyah.