word wrap..

[corillo181]

is there any way that i can word wrap when someone puts in more than the td can handle on width..

beacuase if i gave a person a limit width to write and they write one long word together the td just expands to try and fit it all..

is there any way that i can use something to say on how many charaterc to cause a line breake..

[Barand]

wordwrap() function

[code]$text = 'supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious is a good word to test wordwrap function';

$width = 20;

echo wordwrap($text,$width,'<br/>',1);[/code]

[corillo181]

add that was easier than i ha din mind.. thanx..

oh but the bad thing is that it wraps every x number no matter what..ever if the word doesn't tke the spot and its the x number it wraps.. can there be any way to use it only if one word take more than it supossed to?

[Barand]

You would have to to get the word lengths and check them to see if the max length was exceeded

[code]function max_word($text) {
    $words = explode(' ',$text);
    foreach($words as $w) {
        $sizes[] = strlen($w);
    }
    return max($sizes);
}

$text = 'supercallifragilistic expiallidocious is a good word to test wordwrap function';

$width = 20;

if (max_word($text) > $width)
    echo wordwrap($text,$width,'<br/>',1);
else
    echo $text;
[/code]

[corillo181]

nice. but one more thing if i put it in the text that it's ben out put it litterary puts out the <br> so everyone can see there is a br..so should i do the function before the text goes in to the database?

[Barand]

Don't store text with '<BR>' in the database. Do the formatting on output.