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Bug #40776 highlight.bg setting ignored/unused
Submitted: 2007-03-11 13:45 UTC Modified: 2007-04-26 09:46 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:3.5 ± 0.5
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: seanius at debian dot org Assigned: tony2001 (profile)
Status: Closed Package: PHP options/info functions
PHP Version: 5.2.1 OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-03-11 13:45 UTC] seanius at debian dot org 
Description:
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originally reported at http://bugs.debian.org/405338

it seems that the highlight.bg setting is being ignored for highlight_string/highlight_file().  or perhaps this setting is obsoleted/removed intentionally?  the online docs and php-provided ini files still reference this setting though, and it shows up correctly in phpinfo().

grepping through the source for php5 however, i don't find much referencing the setting apart from the ini file and some test cases.  the highlight_file function in ext/standard/base_functions.c sets the other settings from the "higlight struct", but not the .bg setting.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
 
 # set highlight.bg to something obvious like #ff0000
 # and you'll see that the background stays default.
 # Comment
 highlight_file($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
 
?>

Expected result:
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a red background

Actual result:
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a white default background

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 [2007-04-06 23:15 UTC] seanius at debian dot org 
hi, just fyi:

a patch has been supplied by the reporter in the debian bts:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405338;msg=34;filename=118-highlight_bg.patch;att=1

sorry the urls for attachments suck, you can also browse to it at the address originally provided :)
 [2007-04-07 11:49 UTC] johannes@php.net 
The patch should be changed to not using the HTML body tag for the background color since highlight_file() might be used to embed highlighted code into another file. I also see no need to use highlight_bg as last_color.
 [2007-04-07 18:45 UTC] seanius at debian dot org 
okay, since i'm just kind of acting as an inefficient middle-man here i'll ask the reporter to comment directly to the bug here :)
 [2007-04-07 20:43 UTC] info at noctus dot net 
> The patch should be changed to not using the HTML body tag for the
background color since highlight_file() might be used to embed
highlighted code into another file.

Then the alternative could be to drop the body element again and put the background color for the code element with an additional display:block; But this way a white margin will remain around the displayed source code.

> I also see no need to use highlight_bg as last_color.

Ah yes, you&#8217;re right; I could have used syntax_highlighter_ini->highlight_bg directly.
 [2007-04-26 09:46 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Removed highlight.bg in HEAD, but I can't touch it in PHP5 as it would break binary compat.
 
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