edit is this code correct does not work substr cheers.

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how do i add a brake from the database when echo the letters out.

so if there was a sentence with 200 letters how do i get a brake in there afther 50 letters cheers.

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[url=http://php.net/wordwrap]wordwrap[/url]() might help you.

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I had an idear it was wordwrap can you kindly exsplain what the 1 for cheers.

<?

$word=array("12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123324342343");

foreach($word AS $a);

$result=wordwrap($a,50,"<br>",1);

echo $result;

?>

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[quote]can you kindly exsplain what the 1 for cheers[/quote]
The [url=http://php.net/wordwrap]manual[/url] does a fine job of explaining it. What more can I say?

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Is there a php statement that i can work out how to have only the amount of charecters i wont cheers.

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Please explain?

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i wont to find a way to specefi how many charecters to show from the database.

i wont to learn the code properly but i wont to use if possable a php statement like the wordwrap easy and stright foward.

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Um... ive allready pointed you to the wordwrap manual twice. What part don't you understand?

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I got word wrap working cheers.

this word wrap is for making a brake or new line i also was wanting substr ok but cheers.

ps. if you know of a way to get word wrap to preform like substr show me cheers.

$word=array("11111111112222222222");

foreach($word AS $a);

$result=wordwrap($a,10,"<br>",1);

echo $result;


For example say i wanted to show the first 10 numbers only can word wrap do it? .

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[quote]For example say i wanted to show the first 10 numbers only can word wrap do it?[/quote]
No... use [url=http://php.net/substr]substr[/url]().

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can someone show me kindly what i done wrong please cheers.

<?

$word=array("11111111112222222222");


for($i=0; $i<count($word); $i++){

$word=$word[$i];
}

$text = "$word";

echo ShortenString($text);

function ShortenString($text)

{

// Number of characters you want to display

$num_chars = 19;

$text = $text." ";

$text = substr($text,0,$num_chars);

$text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));

return $text;

}

?>