How do I prevent nl2br from breaking a long link?

[pneudralics]

//Breaks lines in my textarea
$post = nl2br($_POST['description]);

 

The issue is when I submit something like:

<a href = "veryveryverylonglonglonglonglink">longlink goes here</a>

 

and the link starts a new line in the textarea like

<a href = 
"veryveryverylonglonglonglonglink">longlink goes here</a>

 

nl2br automatically adds a br after the break like this

<a href = <br />
"veryveryverylonglonglonglonglink">longlink goes here</a>

 

The <br /> is not saved in the database but when I display it with:

$description = stripslashes(html_entity_decode($memberrow ['description']));
$description2= wordwrap($description, 80, "<br />", true);

 

How would I prevent it from breaking something like that other than changing the 80 to something higher?

[thebadbad]

It wouldn't be a problem with nl2br() I believe, as a newline only is inserted when [Enter] is hit.

If you remove the fourth parameter in wordwrap(), long words aren't cut.