Lit

Lit is a multilanguage syntax highlighter written in PHP. It takes code as input and returns an HTML pre element containing the code highlighted using span elements with classes based upon tokens in the code. It is loosely based upon Atom's Highlights which is used in the Atom text editor to syntax highlight code. Atom's Highlights is in turn based upon TextMate's syntax highlighting using its concepts of scope selectors and common keywords for components of programming languages. Lit is not a port of Atom's Highlights but instead an independent implementation of what I can understand of TextMate's grammar syntax, parsing, and tokenization by analyzing other implementations. It aims to at least have feature parity or better with Atom's Highlights.

Documentation

dW\Lit\Grammar::__construct

Creates a new dW\Lit\Grammar object.

public function dW\Lit\Grammar::__construct(?string $scopeName = null, ?array $patterns = null, ?string $name = null, ?array $injections = null, ?array $repository = null)

Parameters

In normal usage of the library the parameters won't be used (see dW\Lit\Grammar::loadJSON and examples below for more information), but they are listed below for completeness' sake.

scopeName - The scope name of the grammar
patterns - The list of patterns in the grammar
name - A human-readable name for the grammar
injections - The list of injections in the grammar
repository - The list of repository items in the grammar

dW\Lit\Grammar::loadJSON

Imports an Atom JSON grammar into the dW\Lit\Grammar object.

public function dW\Lit\Grammar::loadJSON(string $filename)

Parameters

filename - The JSON file to be imported

dW\Lit\Highlight::toElement

Highlights incoming string data and outputs a PHP DOMElement.

public static dW\Lit\Highlight::toElement(string $data, string $scopeName, ?\DOMDocument $document = null, string $encoding = 'windows-1252'): \DOMElement

Parameters

data - The input data string.
scopeName - The scope name (eg: text.html.php) of the grammar that's needed to highlight the input data.
document - An existing DOMDocument to use as the owner document of the returned DOMElement; if omitted one will be created instead.
encoding - If a document isn't provided an encoding may be provided for the new document; the HTML standard default windows-1252 is used if no encoding is provided.

Return Values

Returns a pre DOMElement.

Examples

Here's an example of simply highlighting PHP code:

$code = <<<CODE
<?php
echo "OOK!";
?>
CODE;

$element = dW\Lit\Highlight::toElement($code, 'text.html.php');
// Use PHP DOM's DOMDocument::saveHTML method to print the highlighted markup.
echo $element->ownerDocument->saveHTML($element);

This will produce:

<pre class="highlighted"><code class="text html php"><span class="meta embedded block php"><span class="punctuation section embedded begin php">&lt;?php</span><span class="source php">
<span class="support function construct output php">echo</span> <span class="string quoted double php"><span class="punctuation definition string begin php">"</span>OOK!<span class="punctuation definition string end php">"</span></span><span class="punctuation terminator expression php">;</span>
</span><span class="punctuation section embedded end php"><span class="source php">?</span>&gt;</span></span></code></pre>

An existing DOMDocument may be used as the owner document of the returned pre element:

$code = <<<CODE
<?php
echo "OOK!";
?>
CODE;

$document = new DOMDocument();
// $element will be owned by $document.
$element = dW\Lit\Highlight::toElement($code, 'text.html.php', $document);

Other DOM libraries which inherit from PHP's DOM such as MensBeam\HTML may also be used:

$code = <<<CODE
<?php
echo "OOK!";
?>
CODE;

$document = new MensBeam\HTML\Document();
// $element will be owned by $document.
$element = dW\Lit\Highlight::toElement($code, 'text.html.php', $document);
// MensBeam\HTML\Element can simply be cast to a string to serialize.
$string = (string)$element;