beingsane / plg_system_codeprettify

Code highlighting for Joomla! based on Google Code Prettify library

Joomla! - Code prettify plugin

Version: 1.1.0

System plugin for code highlighting based on the Google Code Prettify library

See it in action in my blog. Sample article

Google Code Prettify features

• Template support
• Automatically language detection
• Used by code.google.com and stackoverflow.com
• More details in the project wiki

Joomla! plugin features

• You can override / customise templates just copying them to your template folder
• Uses standard javascript onload event so it works with jQuery, Mootools or any other library
• It's only 14KB

Installation

1. Download the plugin
2. In plugin management search and enable the plugin codeprettify. You can also select the template there.
3. Start using it!

Use

To start adding code you only need to create a <pre class="prettyprint"> block with your coding inside like:

<pre class="prettyprint"> // Required objects $app = JFactory::getApplication(); $db = JFactory::getDbo(); $jinput = $app->input; </pre>

Customise/create new templates

The easiest way to create a template is base it in any of the existing templates.

To do that copy the desired style from the folder:
media/codeprettify/styles

to the folder: template/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/plg_system_codeprettify/styles

And then edit there to fit your needs. In the plugin settings your new template will be shown in the select list marked as (override)