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luminous/luminous
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A full featured syntax highlighting library.

v0.7.0(13y ago)521.7k5[11 issues](https://github.com/markwatkinson/luminous/issues)2LGPL-2.1PHP

Since Jan 12Pushed 10y ago3 watchersCompare

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Luminous - a Syntax Highlighter for PHP
=======================================

[](#luminous---a-syntax-highlighter-for-php)

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Luminous is an accurate and style-able syntax highlighter for PHP which supports a bunch of common languages and output to HTML and LaTeX.

If you simply want to use Luminous as a library, **please don't clone this repository**. Or if you do, make sure you delete luminous/tests afterwards. Do not expose luminous/tests on a public machine. It is recommended to get a packaged version from the links below.

\##Links:

- [Luminous PHP syntax highlighter official site](http://luminous.asgaard.co.uk/) - news, latest stable versions, etc
- [Online demo](http://luminous.asgaard.co.uk/index.php/demo)
- [Documentation and help](http://luminous.asgaard.co.uk/index.php/docs/show/index), read this if you get stuck!
- [Supported language list](http://luminous.asgaard.co.uk/assets/luminous/supported.php)
- [Luminous on GitHub](https://github.com/markwatkinson/luminous) - please report problems to the issue tracker here

Installation
============

[](#installation)

Extract your tarball, zip, whatever, into some directory where it's going to be used (i.e. probably your web-server). We'll assume it's called `luminous/'

Alternatively, Composer:
------------------------

[](#alternatively-composer)

Luminous is also available via Packagist as a Composer package:

```
{
        "require": {
                "luminous/luminous": "0.7.*"
        }
}
```

Quick Usage
===========

[](#quick-usage)

First, if you're going to use caching, which you probably are, create a directory called luminous/cache and give it writable permissions (chmod 777 on most servers -- yours may accept a less permissive value). Then include luminous/luminous.php and away you go!

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