NAME¶
PPI::HTML - Generate syntax-hightlighted HTML for Perl using PPI
SYNOPSIS¶
use PPI;
use PPI::HTML;
# Load your Perl file
my $Document = PPI::Document->load( 'script.pl' );
# Create a reusable syntax highlighter
my $Highlight = PPI::HTML->new( line_numbers => 1 );
# Spit out the HTML
print $Highlight->html( $Document );
DESCRIPTION¶
PPI::HTML converts Perl documents into syntax highlighted HTML pages.
HISTORY¶
PPI::HTML is the successor to the now-redundant PPI::Format::HTML.
While early on it was thought that the same formatting code might be able to be
used for a variety of different types of things (ANSI and HTML for example)
later developments with the here-doc code and the need for independantly
written serializers meant that this idea had to be discarded.
In addition, the old module only made use of the Tokenizer, and had a pretty
shit API to boot.
API Overview¶
The new module is much cleaner. Simply create an object with the options you
want, pass PPI::Document objects to the "html" method, and you get
strings of HTML that you can do whatever you want with.
METHODS¶
new %args¶
The "new" constructor takes a simple set of key/value pairs to define
the formatting options for the HTML.
- page
- Is the "page" option is enabled, the generator will wrap the
generated HTML fragment in a basic but complete page.
- line_numbers
- At the present time, the only option available. If set to true, line
numbers are added to the output.
- colors | colours
- For cases where you don't want to use an external stylesheet, you can
provide "colors" as a hash reference where the keys are CSS
classes (generally matching the token name) and the values are colours.
This allows basic colouring without the need for a whole stylesheet.
- css
- The "css" option lets you provide a custom CSS::Tiny object
containing any CSS you want to apply to the page (if you are using page
mode).
If both the "colors" and "css" options are used, the
colour CSS entries will overwrite anything contained in the CSS::Tiny
object. The object will also be cloned if it to be modified, to prevent
destroying any CSS objects passed in.
Returns a new PPI::HTML object
css¶
The "css" accessor returns the CSS::Tiny object originally provided to
the constructor.
html $Document | $file | \$source¶
The main method for the class, the "html" method takes a single
PPI::Document object, or anything that can be turned into a PPI::Document via
its "new" method, and returns a string of HTML formatted based on
the arguments given to the "PPI::HTML" constructor.
Returns a string, or "undef" on error.
SUPPORT¶
Bugs should always be submitted via the CPAN bug tracker
<
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=PPI-HTML>
For other issues, contact the maintainer
AUTHOR¶
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
Funding provided by The Perl Foundation
SEE ALSO¶
<
http://ali.as/>, PPI
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2005 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this
module.