by Pravin Paratey

Hacking wp-syntax plugin to show header

engineering php

I was recently asked how I got the wp-syntax plugin to show a header like so:

int main() {
    return 0;
}

To show the test.cpp file name, I modified the wp-syntax.php file (present in /wp-content/plugins/wp-syntax/) like so:

Changed the regular expression in the wp_syntax_before_filter function from:

function wp_syntax_before_filter($content)
{
    return preg_replace_callback(
        "/\s*(.*)<\/pre>\s*/siU",
        "wp_syntax_substitute",
        $content
    );
}

to

function wp_syntax_before_filter($content)
{
    return preg_replace_callback(
        "/\s*<pre(?:lang=[\"']([\w-]*)[\"']|line=[\"'](\d*)[\"']|escaped=[\"'](true|false)?[\"']|header=[\"']([\w-\. ]*)[\"']|\s)+>(.*)<\/pre>\s*/siU",
        "wp_syntax_substitute",
        $content
    );
}

{: class=“prettyprint linenums:1”}

And the wp_syntax_highlight function to:

function wp_syntax_highlight($match)
{
    global $wp_syntax_matches;

    $i = intval($match[1]);
    $match = $wp_syntax_matches[$i];

    $language = strtolower(trim($match[1]));
    $line = trim($match[2]);
    $escaped = trim($match[3]);
    $header = trim($match[4]);
    $code = wp_syntax_code_trim($match[5]);
    if ($escaped == "true") $code = htmlspecialchars_decode($code);

    $geshi = new GeSHi($code, $language);
    $geshi->enable_keyword_links(false);
    do_action_ref_array('wp_syntax_init_geshi', array(&$geshi));

    $output = "\n<div class=\"wp_syntax\">";

    if($header) {
        $output .= "<div class=\"wp_syn_hdr\">" . $header . "</div>";
    }

{: class=“prettyprint linenums:94”}

Note the addition of lines 104 and 114-116.

All you have to do is add another attribute header="header-text" in your pre tag. ex. &lt;pre lang="php" line="1" header="wp-syntax.php"&gt;