[TextMate] Syntax Question: Including HTML in PHP syntax

[Mats Persson]

Hi Rich & Sune,

> Umm, so what's wrong with the HTML-PHP syntax highlighting that ships 
> with TM? Using this syntax, anything outside PHP delimiters is 
> considered HTML and highlighted accordingly (albeit in grey), which is 
> what you want, right?

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear enough, so let's use some images to 
save me a 1000 words. ; )

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What I would like is something along the lines of BBEdit & skEdit's and 
their dual highlighting capabilities. In other words, when we are in a 
.php file and exit php with ?> and then start having HTML code in 
there, then the HTML code highlighting should work just as IF we were 
using a .html file. And vice versa.

As it is right now, I have a choice of highlighting for HTML or for 
PHP, BUT NOT both at the same time.


All my settings and the results thereof:

My HTML syntax file is in a bundle called mxHTML and the syntax file is 
named mxHTML.plist and it is a copy of this file:

	BASIC HTML DICTIONARY FOR TEXTMATE
	==================================
	Version 1.0 (Sune Foldager, Justin French, Allan Odgaard)

with the following changes (apart from colour settings):

	name = "mxHTML";

	/*
	* embedded languages -- [SNIP]
	*/
	{ 	name = "Embedded PHP"; 		
		begin = "<\\?(php|=)?";
		end = "\\?>";
		patterns = (
				{ include = "mxPHP"; }
				);
	},


My PHP syntax file is in a bundle called mxPHP and the syntax file is 
named mxPHP.plist and its a copy of Jason Spahr's Smarty PHP bundle.

with the following changes:

	name = "mxPHP";

	{ 	name = "Embedded HTML";
		begin = "\\?>";
		end = "<\\?(php|=)?";
		patterns = (
				{ include = "mxHTML"; }
				);
	},



The same code block rendered with my syntax files:


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Apologies for the length and size of this email, but I hope this will 
have clarified my position and aid in solving this problem.

IF I am asking for the impossible, then Allan & gang has some more work 
to do, else I am doing something wrong, and someone smarter than me 
will hopefully point me in the right direction. : )


Kind regards,

Mats