Luminous

Development has started on the 0.7 branch. One of the reasons for advancing the version number is because there are some changes that are going to be backwards incompatible, so this is a heads up. 0.7 will see a radical overhaul of the line numbering ... [More] system and move it from generating the numbers in PHP to a pure CSS solution. Line numbers have always been a pain; the current solution is to place the numbers and code in two adjacent table cells (I've seen other highlighters do this too) because…[...] [Less]

0.6.6 is a relatively minor release that doesn't add any new exciting functionality, but clears up a few things which have been long overdue. Firstly, Luminous should now work on PHP5.2.0 and above, with the caveat that early versions in the 5.2 tree ... [More] will generate warnings under strict mode. This does not affect later 5.2 releases. This should be a plus to anyone forced to still support the whole 5.2 tree. Secondly, the cache has slightly better error logging facilities. By default, Luminous is…[...] [Less]

Some PHP 5.2.0 incompatibilities have recently been squashed and the changes will shortly be making it into a stable release (in the next week or so). For now, you can clone from GitHub, but the changes are so far largely untested. Luminous should ... [More] already be compatible with later releases from the PHP 5.2 tree, and you really shouldn't be running such an old PHP version anyway as it is now unsupported, but sometimes you don't…[...] [Less]

The Luminous syntax highlighting plugin for CodeIgniter has been updated. It now uses Luminous 0.6.5 (refer to the 0.6.5 changelog to find out what that means), but more importantly, a small bug that could cause ugly PHP errors has been fixed. Note ... [More] that the plugin is not versioned (beyond Git) so the URL and filename are the same. Instructions…[...] [Less]

0.6.5 adds a number of things. In no particular order, the highlights are: a new theme, Kimono, which is based on the more famous Monokai theme; A version checking script; Some small performance optimisations; A ‘plain’ diff scanner; And a number of language specific fixes in Django, Ruby, Bash, Perl and PHP. Overall, the languages [...]

0.6.5 adds a number of things. In no particular order, the highlights are: a new theme, Kimono, which is based on the more famous Monokai theme; A version checking script; Some small performance optimisations; A 'plain' diff scanner; And a number of ... [More] language specific fixes in Django, Ruby, Bash, Perl and PHP. Overall, the languages fixes in 0.6.5 makes Luminous an even better syntax highlighter than it was before and it is recommended that…[...] [Less]

It is now easily possible to combine your favourite PHP framework with your favourite syntax highlighter. Using this method, you can use [code], or tags to define blocks of source code, and CodeIgniter and Luminous will highlight them before the ... [More] page is rendered. The 'hook' is available for download on the download page, and installation and usage instructions are online…[...] [Less]

It is now easily possible to combine your favourite PHP framework with your favourite syntax highlighter. Using this method, you can use [code], or tags to define blocks of source code, and CodeIgniter and Luminous will highlight them before the page is rendered. The 'hook' is available for download on the download page, [...]

0.6.4 has been released. Highlights are: A Django Scanner, a new theme based on GitHub's syntax highlighting, you can now use border-radius on the Luminous div element, and it should look okay, a whole bunch of bug fixes in web language scanners ... [More] , and some missing keywords added for Python Everyone should definitely upgrade as the fixed bugs in the web languages were potentially fatal,…[...] [Less]

0.6.4 has been released. Highlights are: A Django Scanner A new theme based on GitHub’s syntax highlighting You can now use border-radius on the Luminous div element, and it should look okay A whole bunch of bug fixes in web language scanners, and some missing keywords added for Python Everyone should definitely upgrade as the [...]