Title: Hack made to the wp-syntax plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Hack made to the wp-syntax plugin

 *  [everah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everah/)
 * (@everah)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hack-made-to-the-wp-syntax-plugin/)
 * I just made a couple of changes to wp-syntax as I noticed that when I fixed the‘
   separating opening PHP tag’ issue the plugin was doing some weird stuff.
 * This is what I changed:
 *     ```
       function wp_syntax_code_trim($code)
       {
           // special ltrim b/c leading whitespace matters on 1st line of content
           $code = preg_replace("/^\s*\n/siU", "", $code);
           $code = rtrim($code);
   
       	// This hack was added to prevent the adding of opening and closing tags just because
       	if (strpos($code, '<?php') === false) {
       		$code = '<?php' . "\n" . $code;
       	}
   
       	if (strpos($code, '?>', strlen($code)-2) === false) {
       		$code .= "\n" . '?>';
       	}
       	// End hack
           return $code;
       }
       ```
   
 *     ```
       function wp_syntax_highlight($match)
       {
           global $wp_syntax_matches;
   
           $i = intval($match[1]);
           $match = $wp_syntax_matches[$i];
   
           $language = strtolower(trim($match[1]));
           $line = trim($match[2]);
           $code = wp_syntax_code_trim($match[3]);
   
           $geshi = new GeSHi($code, $language);
           //$geshi->enable_keyword_links(false);
   
           $output = "\n<div class=\"wp_syntax\">";
   
           if ($line)
           {
               $output .= "<table><tr><td class=\"line_numbers\">";
               $output .= wp_syntax_line_numbers($code, $line);
               $output .= "</td><td class=\"code\">";
               $output .= $geshi->parse_code();
               $output .= "</td></tr></table>";
           }
           else
           {
               $output .= '<div class="code">';
               $output .= $geshi->parse_code();
               $output .= '</div>';
           }
           //return
   
           $output .= "</div>\n";
   
           return $output;
       }
       ```
   

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