[Manager Mod] Code Highlighting

This modification allows you to see the highlighted source of Snippets, Chunks, and Templates with line numbers using the Geshi Highlighter. I have found this to be extremely helpful when creating snippets due to the line numbers, and it just makes the code easier to decipher (my opinion )

There are a couple of minor core file changes but very minimal and I commented the areas that were added. In case of newer core versions of the altered files, transfer a couple of lines of code and thats it.

Included in the zip file is a file named "readme706_805am.txt" which has detailed install instructions and a list of the files which are affected. I’ll also attach the readme file here seperate in case you want to read it before you download the zip.

Here are a couple of screenshots to show how it looks:
chunk (html)

chunk (javascript)

snippet

template


Hopefully this will be useful to some folks...

wouawww

Nice add-on. Should be really useful.


:-)

Great work Breezer!

Remember! we have now proper place for all of your precious contributions: http://modxcms.com/downloads.html

regards,

zi

Nice work Breezer! Gonna definitely try this, Thanks!

This looks really great! I will give it a try very soon

Thanks,
Kyle

Thanks for the kind words

Its a shame I’ve been sitting on this for about 6 months - it’s a worse shame I haven’t tried MODx before now

The reason I haven’t added this to the repository yet is I think I am going to change the coloring in the modx_template, probably by the weekend so I’ll add it then as long as nobody has any issues with it...

Quote from: breezer at Jul 06, 2006, 08:41 PM

Its a shame I’ve been sitting on this for about 6 months - it’s a worse shame I haven’t tried MODx before now

Yea, finally, welcome to the community breezer! I’ve seen good stuff from you before in some other forum ;) ..looking forward to see more amazing stuff! Keep up the good work!

This looks to be an excellent mod, I’ll have a closer look tomorrow at some point. Just one thing, any chance that plugins could have the makeover as well?

All in all, great work Breezer

Plugins won’t be a problem, I’ll get that together and put it in a zip in the first post but it will probably be later tommorrow evening...

On a side note, if anyone who tries this has any suggestions for the coloring the code items when using the modx_template (used for highlighting the templates) add them here... that was my first try at makng a geshi template so it looks sorta odd to me.

From a usability standpoint what if clicking the highlighted code switches it to a text box. That way we would not need to have 2 tabs for the code. Is this better or worse?