Re: Changing font-lock for combined HTML and PHP code??

[Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:

> Hi Eric;
>
> Since I am just starting on this HTML/PHP journey I may misspeak but ...
>
> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 12:13 -0700, Eric Lilja wrote:
>> On 16 Apr, 20:22, William Case <billli...@rogers.com> wrote:
>> > Hi;
>> >
>> > I am working on web site made up of files that combine HTML and PHP.  My
>> > main interest is in the PHP coding.  Is there a relatively easy way to
>> > set the font-lock colors for the tags (constants) that distinguishes
>> > between a HTML tag and a PHP tag when I am in php-mode.
>> 
>> I would like to find a good way to handle these kinds of files too,
>> with both html code and php code.
>> What I'm experimenting with just now is adding a keyboard setting for
>> the html-mode to go to php mode and keyboard setting for php mode to
>> go to html mode. Not ideal but better than what I had before which was
>> treating php-files like html-files, hehe. I like emacs' html mode. I
>> downloaded php mode from a third party.
>> 
>
> Since all the HTML tags are in the form <x> </x> i.e. double angle
> brackets, it seems to me I should be able to add a definition somewhere
> (where ?) that gets added to a php-mode font-lock mode and assigns a
> special meaning and colour to expressions with double angle brackets.
>
> At the moment I am using the global font-locks, so I would have to
> create (or edit)
> a php-mode font-lock using an amended global font-lock as my template.  
>
> (Easy to say.  Doing is another thing.)
>
> On second thought, it doesn't matter if HTML constants are always shown
> in readable yellow while PHP show up in Orange in a global setting.
>
>> The code is simply:
>> 
>> (require 'php-mode)
>> 
>> ; php-mode actually runs this hook, maybe there's a better place to
>> put this...
>> (defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
>>   (define-key c-mode-base-map "\C-c\C-h" 'html-mode)
>> )
>> (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)
>> 
>> 
>> (defun my-html-mode-hook ()
>>   (define-key html-mode-map "\C-c\C-p" 'php-mode)
>> )
>> (add-hook 'html-mode-hook 'my-html-mode-hook)
>> 
>> The php-mode will actually font lock the html code but I don't like
>> the way it indents it at all. Thus I switch between the modes with
>> these keyboard bindings depending on if I'm editing a html part of the
>> file or a php part. As I said, not ideal, but better than my earlier
>> approach.
>> 
>
> As I say, my concentration is on the PHP so I only need to differentiate
> between PHP and the beginning and ending of a block of HTML.  I don't
> need a full different set of syntatical font-locks for HTML.

I would suggest trying nxhtml - it has come on a lot recently and
Lennart is sufficiently motivated to support it. The whole html/php/css
situation is a bit of a mess for emacs at the moment - too many
competing hacks. nxhtml is quite a nice solution to all that.