diff --git a/lib/ace/mode/php.js b/lib/ace/mode/php.js
index a73f3e84..6312840d 100644
--- a/lib/ace/mode/php.js
+++ b/lib/ace/mode/php.js
@@ -35,14 +35,17 @@ var oop = require("../lib/oop");
 var TextMode = require("./text").Mode;
 var Tokenizer = require("../tokenizer").Tokenizer;
 var PhpHighlightRules = require("./php_highlight_rules").PhpHighlightRules;
+var PhpLangHighlightRules = require("./php_highlight_rules").PhpLangHighlightRules;
 var MatchingBraceOutdent = require("./matching_brace_outdent").MatchingBraceOutdent;
 var Range = require("../range").Range;
 var CstyleBehaviour = require("./behaviour/cstyle").CstyleBehaviour;
 var CStyleFoldMode = require("./folding/cstyle").FoldMode;
 var unicode = require("../unicode");
 
-var Mode = function() {
-    this.$tokenizer = new Tokenizer(new PhpHighlightRules().getRules());
+var Mode = function(opts) {
+    var inline = opts && opts.inline;
+    var HighlightRules = inline ? PhpLangHighlightRules : PhpHighlightRules;
+    this.$tokenizer = new Tokenizer(new HighlightRules().getRules());
     this.$outdent = new MatchingBraceOutdent();
     this.$behaviour = new CstyleBehaviour();
     this.foldingRules = new CStyleFoldMode();
diff --git a/lib/ace/mode/php_highlight_rules.js b/lib/ace/mode/php_highlight_rules.js
index dc08198d..eac9ecea 100644
--- a/lib/ace/mode/php_highlight_rules.js
+++ b/lib/ace/mode/php_highlight_rules.js
@@ -1062,4 +1062,5 @@ var PhpHighlightRules = function() {
 oop.inherits(PhpHighlightRules, HtmlHighlightRules);
 
 exports.PhpHighlightRules = PhpHighlightRules;
+exports.PhpLangHighlightRules = PhpLangHighlightRules;
 });