Generic Syntax Highlighter (GeSHi) for ColdFusion

Posted on Monday, 3rd March 2008 in Development by Simon

GeSHi started out as a module for the phpBB forum system to enable highlighting of programming languages, which was largely unavailable at the time. Since its conception it has spawned into a standalone project, supported by many web-based PHP content management systems.

Since I’m a ColdFusion developer, it was necessary to write a language reference file for ColdFusion and in particular, version 8.

You can download the file (30KB) here and upload it into your website’s GeSHi folder. You will need to rename it to cfm.php.

By including the content between a set of pre tags, <pre lang=”cfm”></pre>, GeSHi will implement the correct syntax for ColdFusion.

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