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geshi/geshi
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Generic Syntax Highlighter

v1.0.9.1(6y ago)1741.1M—7.9%99[11 PRs](https://github.com/GeSHi/geshi-1.0/pulls)12GPL-2.0+PHP

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GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter
==================================

[](#geshi---generic-syntax-highlighter)

### Version 1.0.9.1

[](#version-1091)

Author: [Benny Baumann](http://blog.benny-baumann.de/), [Nigel McNie](http://nigel.mcnie.name/)Email: , GeSHi Website:

GeSHi is a generic syntax highlighter, written in PHP. You simply input the source code you wish to highlight with the language you wish to use, and the output will be a file syntax highlighted to XHTML standards.

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

For more information on how to use GeSHi, please consult the documentation. If you got this readme from a GeSHi package, then the documentation is available in the [docs](https://github.com/GeSHi/geshi-1.0/tree/master/docs)directory. Documentation is also available [online](http://qbnz.com/highlighter/documentation.php).

If you think you've found a bug in GeSHi, contact me with a bug report at , submit to the [bug tracker at GitHub](https://github.com/GeSHi/geshi-1.0/issues). Be aware that minor highlighting errors may well just be incorrect language files, but if you do find something major please contact me.

And if you're using GeSHi as a plugin/mod for some other software, please tell me about it! It's worth a link to you, and I can give you specialist help if you need it.

License
-------

[](#license)

GeSHi is free software, released under the GNU GPL. Please see the [LICENSE](https://github.com/GeSHi/geshi-1.0/blob/master/LICENSE)file for more information. If you do modify this program, please tell me about it! Perhaps you've made a good improvement that I can learn from :)

###  Health Score

50

—

FairBetter than 96% of packages

Maintenance28

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity57

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community40

Growing community involvement

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 68.1% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~604 days

Total

4

Last Release

2402d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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