PHP syntax highlighting

[jayrb]

I'd like to use Oxygen as my default text editor and I see it theoretically has support for PHP. However, when I open my files, the first half of the doc is one colour, then some limited syntax colouring is applied to the latter part.

I have not identified any special character or pattern which delineates the change.

The PHP coding style is along OOP lines with no HTML in the file.

Any suggestions?

tia,
Jay

[Dan]

We are trying to fix the problem. The syntax highlight stops working when a "<" character is present in the PHP script because it is considered as being a start tag.

[jayrb]

Thanks for the update Dan, much appreciated. I really like this editor, it matches (at least, if not better) XML Spy at a fraction of the cost.

My fav is NEdit (http://nedit.org) and I would offer this as a great example of an infrastructure for syntax highlighting. They really cool part is that you can define your own parameters and subsequently there are many submissions from users.

Cheers,
Jay

[Dan]

The problem with the "<" symbol inside a PHP block has been fixed. (From version 4).
We use for PHP the same editor mode as for XML. The PHP code is in fact a processing instruction embedded in the HTML document so it is rendered with the processing instruction color.
We will try to find a way to highlight also the PHP keywords inside the PHP block.

[jayrb]

Thanks very much for getting this to work.