I noticed that the syntax/php.vim file on my ubuntu machine has a php_htmlInStrings option. I can turn this option on to display HTML syntax highlighting within strings in my php files, which is great. I would also like to do javascript syntax highlighting within strings in a php file. Does anybody know if this can be done and if so how can I do it?
edited - added extra possibilities
I should also mention that I would be happy with a solution where i have to parse all my javascript strings though a php function before outputting the result. This might get around the problem suggested by conner below where vim has trouble deciding if the string contains javascript. for example:
$js = "some regular text which is not javascript##now vim has
detected that this part is javscript##back to regular text";
parse($js);
function parse($str)
{
return str_replace('##', '', $str);
}
The reason I would be happy to do this is because I will probably be incorporating a html/css/js variable minifier into my project which will be doing substitutions on strings anyway.
Of course if there is a vim-specific equivalent character for ## which will not show up in the source code and would not need to be filtered out then this would be preferable...
re-edit 2
As per conner's solution below, the desired effect can be achieved like so:
$js = "<script>some javascript</script>";
(with :let php_htmlInStrings=1 in vim). If somebody can show me the vim script required to get the javascript syntax highlighting to show up in the following string then I will award them the answer:
$js = /*<script>*/"some javascript"/*</script>*/;
