[SOLVED] wordwrap help

[Stephen68]

I'm not sure why this is not working so I thought I would post it here. I'm just looping through information that I am getting from a database with a while loop and displaying it in HTML. The problem that I found out is that some of the text has no breaks in it and so it would stretch the cells out pass what I would like. It was suggested to me that I use wordwrap to force the text to wrap as I would like it.

 

$title = wordwrap($row['Job_Title'], 10, "<br />\n");

 

This is what I came up with, I assume that it would count over 10 chars and put in a break. The thing is it's not doing that, is there something wrong with my syntax of it?

 

Thanks for looking at this for me

 

Stephen

[blintas]

I think the better solution is to set the width of your cells so they cannot be broken.

 

<table width="500">
<tr>
<td width="100">info</td>
<td width="100">info</td>
<td width="100">info</td>
<td width="100">info</td>
<td width="100">info</td>
</tr>
</table>

 

This way, the text can never break 100px in size for each cell...

 

Hope that helps!

[Stephen68]

Ya I thought about doing that but I had the table width set and it still pushed the cell out. I still don't see why the wordwrap is not working though ;(

 

Stephen

[blintas]

Try this

 

<?php 
function one_wordwrap($string,$width){ 
  $s=explode(" ", $string); 
  foreach ($s as $k=>$v) { 
    $cnt=strlen($v); 
    if($cnt>$width) $v=wordwrap($v, $width, "<br />", true); 
      $new_string.="$v "; 
  } 
  return $new_string; 
} 
?> 

[Stephen68]

Worked great thank you for your time in this, still wonder why the wordwrap directly in the display code would not work ;(

 

Thanks again

 

Stephen

[JonnoTheDev]

Im sure word wrapping can also be done using CSS

[premiso]

What type of data is held in the job_title, is it just one word? Or does it have a "\n" (line break) or any other weird items like that?

 

wordwrap can be picky. And that could be the issue.

[Stephen68]

It could be a few words and would most likely contain /n in it.

[premiso]

It could be a few words and would most likely contain /n in it.

 

The \n is where the issue arises, unfortunately. But as long as the other method works you are good. I just figured it would be good for you to have an explanation why it was not working properly. The \n to wordwrap is already separating the string.

 

Alternatively, if \n is meant to do that you might want to look into nl2br as that may be an answer.

[Stephen68]

Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me, I believe that I could make that work and will try it out.

 

 

Again thanks for you time

 

Stephen