Make a new line at a certain point

[Shadow Hatake]

Olay, so I'm making a chat box in an iamge and I want the line to stop at a certain point and make a new line. How would I do this?

Here's my code. It's currently untested due to my hosting being down.

[code]<?php

include('dbconnect.php');

$height = 150;
$width = 400;
$background = 'http://www.infected-designs.com/chatbox/chatbox.png';
$im = imagecreatefrompng($background);
$white = imagecolorallocate( $im, 255, 255, 255 );
$x = 32;

$query = "SELECT * FROM chatbox ORDER BY id ASC";
$result = mysql_query( $query );

while( $row = @mysql_fetch_array( $result, MYSQL_ASSOC ) ) {
imagestring( $im, 2, 7, $x, $row['name'].': '.$row['message'], $white );
$x = $x + 15;
}

header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
?>[/code]

[Shadow Hatake]

Ack. 3rd page and no replies. :(

[redarrow]

you have to wait your turn read the forum rules ok.


and the ansaw to this is \n meaning new line.

[hitman6003]

You may want to use the wordwrap function.  It will wrap your string at a certain number of characters using a specified break character...\n, \r, \r\n...even <br />.  You can force it to either break at exactly that number of characters, or at the closest word to that number...like a word processor.

http://www.php.net/wordwrap

[Shadow Hatake]

Alright I tried that and it didn't work so I decided to try a test.

[code]<?php

$test = "this is a test string";
$test2 = wordwrap( $test, 4 );

echo $test2;

?>[/code]

and it won't wrap.

http://www.infected-designs.com/chatbox/test.php

[hitman6003]

Actually, it did work.  Do a view source on your page.

Remember, line breaks are not displayed in html.  Put <pre> tags around your echo, or force it to use <br /> as the break character.

[Shadow Hatake]

Oh okay. So how would I do this with an image?

[hitman6003]

[code]imagestring( $im, 2, 7, $x, wordwrap($row['name'].': '.$row['message'], 20, "\n"), $white );[/code]

[Shadow Hatake]

okay I tried that and it add's yen signs where the breaks should be...

http://www.infected-designs.com/chatbox/chatbox.php

[Shadow Hatake]

Bump.  ;D