Syntax Highlighting in README.md seems not to work properly when coming from Bitbucket

[Tobias Köngeter]

I assume that syntax highlighting in a README.md file seems not to work properly when the repository comes from Bitbucket.

Here are to libraries to compare:

• From GitHub: solaris/php-moon-phase
• From Bitbucket: bitandblack/sentence-construction

In both of them, the PHP code has been written with three backticks, followed by php.

Strangely enough, the HTML of the rendered documents is different:

From GitHub:

<pre><span class="pl-ent">&lt;?php</span>
<span class="pl-k">use</span> <span class="pl-v">Solaris</span>\<span class="pl-v">MoonPhase</span>;
[…]
</pre>

From Bitbucket:

<pre><code class="language-php">&lt;?php
use BitAndBlack\SentenceConstruction;
[…]
</code></pre>

Has anyone an idea what happens here and why?

[Stephan]

Code syntax highlighting currently only works for GitHub repositories. For GitHub repositories, Packagist uses the GitHub API to fetch the rendered HTML of a readme file. For all other repositories a cebe/markdown is used to render the markdown as HTML which doesn't seem to support code syntax highlighting.

[Tobias Köngeter]

Oh, interesting! Thanks for the explanation, @glaubinix! I thought we'd be using something like highlight.js here... What were the reasons against solving this on the front-end side?

[Stephan]

I don't know, but I would assume that the GitHub API call is convenient, covers >95% of installed packages without the need for an additional dependency. So far the lack of code syntax highlighting in other repositories probably just hasn't come up yet.

[Jordi Boggiano]

Yeah it just works and GitHub is almost 99% of packages, so not really worth the hassle to fix IMO. We have so many other things to do.