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Module

Download module at SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

tar -xzf SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi-REL1_23-4959271.tar.gz -C /var/www/mediawiki/extensions

Setup

Copy file into extensions folder Add the following code at the end of LocalSettings.php

require_once "$IP/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php";
$wgSyntaxHighlightDefaultLang = "php"; 

Sample code

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
<?php
    $v = "string";    // sample initialization
?>
html text
<?
    echo $v;         // end of php code
?>
</syntaxhighlight>

Supported Languages

These are the languages known by GeSHi that can be used in the lang parameter.

Note that installed GeSHi version (can be revealed by previewing e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="-"></syntaxhighlight>) might not be the most recent version; see bugzilla:10967 for Wikimedia sites.

The GeSHi sources for each language can be found in VCS on SourceForge. Remember to go and select the version that the MediaWiki installation uses.

Code	Language
abap	ABAP
actionscript	ActionScript
ada	Ada
apache	Apache Configuration
applescript	AppleScript
asm	Assembly
asp	Active Server Pages (ASP)
autoit	AutoIt
bash	Bash
basic4gl	Basic4GL
bf	Brainfuck
blitzbasic	Blitz BASIC
bnf	Backus-Naur Form
c	C
c_mac	C (Mac)
caddcl	AutoCAD DCL
cadlisp	AutoLISP
cfdg	CFDG
cfm	ColdFusion Markup Language
cil	Common Intermediate Language (CIL)
cobol	COBOL
cpp-qt	C++ (Qt toolkit)
cpp	C++
csharp	C#
css	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
d	D
delphi	Delphi
diff	Diff
div	DIV
dos	DOS batch file
dot	DOT
eiffel	Eiffel
fortran	Fortran
freebasic	FreeBASIC
gambas	Gambas
genero	Genero
gettext	GNU internationalization (i18n) library
glsl	OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
gml	Game Maker Language (GML)
gnuplot	gnuplot
groovy	Groovy
haskell	Haskell
Haxe	Haxe
hq9plus	HQ9+
html4strict	HTML
html5	HTML5
idl	Uno IDL
ini	INI
inno	Inno
intercal	INTERCAL
io	Io
java	Java
java5	Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0
javascript	JavaScript
kixtart	KiXtart
klonec	Klone C
klonecpp	Klone C++
latex	LaTeX
lisp	Lisp
lolcode	LOLCODE
lotusscript	LotusScript
lua	Lua

Code	Language
m68k	Motorola 68000 Assembler
make	make
matlab	MATLAB M
mirc	mIRC scripting language
mxml	MXML
mpasm	Microchip Assembler
mysql	MySQL
nsis	Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS)
objc	Objective-C
ocaml-brief	OCaml
ocaml	OCaml
oobas	OpenOffice.org Basic
oracle8	Oracle 8 SQL
oracle11	Oracle 11 SQL
pascal	Pascal
per	per
perl	Perl
php-brief	PHP
php	PHP
pixelbender	Pixel Bender
plsql	PL/SQL
povray	Persistence of Vision Raytracer
powershell	Windows PowerShell
progress	OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
prolog	Prolog
providex	ProvideX
python	Python
qbasic	QBasic/QuickBASIC
rails	Rails
reg	Windows Registry
robots	robots.txt
rsplus	R
ruby	Ruby
sas	SAS
scala	Scala
scheme	Scheme
scilab	Scilab
sdlbasic	SdlBasic
smalltalk	Smalltalk
smarty	Smarty
sql	SQL
tcl	Tcl
teraterm	Tera Term
text	Plain text
thinbasic	thinBasic
tsql	Transact-SQL
typoscript	TypoScript
vala	Vala
vb	Visual Basic
vbnet	Visual Basic .NET
verilog	Verilog
vhdl	VHDL
vim	Vimscript
visualfoxpro	Visual FoxPro
visualprolog	Visual Prolog
whitespace	Whitespace
winbatch	Winbatch
xml	XML
xorg_conf	Xorg.conf
xpp	X++
z80	ZiLOG Z80 Assembler