Bug 194149

I often have to write javascript, css or HTML code inside a PHP/PHTML file.

1. Here syntax highliting will work:
<?php
echo "test";
?>
<script type="text/JavaScript">
var v = "also test";
...
</script>

But often I use heredoc and in Zend Framework it is the best to use view helpers like $this->headScript() and then it will not work.

2. Heredoc example:
$js = <<<JAVASCRIPT
var v = "also test";
JAVASCRIPT;

3. Zend helpers add correct starting tags and move the string to head part of page so I can't add my own SCRIPT tag which would help to highlight correctly.
<?php $this->headScript()->captureStart(); ?>
var v = "also test";
<?php $this->headScript()->captureEnd(); ?>


Possible solution:
I think mixed syntax higlighting is supported in PHP editor, becasue it works in example 1.

I don't saw solution in other editors I worked with, but I would like at least to propose.

heredoc: define reserved heredoc names (<<<HTML, <<<JAVASCRIPT, <<<) and use them as hints

other situations: let user to define own (or define fixed) start/end strings assigned to highlight language.
For example I would define in Netbeans configuration javascript=>("//jssyntax", "//.jssyntax")

Then I would have to write:
<?php $this->headScript()->captureStart(); ?>
//jssyntax
var v = "also test";
//.jssyntax
<?php $this->headScript()->captureEnd(); ?>