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[Woodburn2006]

when getting a block of text from a database, is there anyway of making the txt appear in 2 columns?

so that half of the text is in one column and then the rest is in the next column

thanks

[ronverdonk]

Are you talking about an HTML table column or a database column?

Ronald  ;D

[Woodburn2006]

im gettin from a single column from the database then want to spread it across 2 html columns

is there any way of splitting the output into 2 variables? that way it would be easy to do it

[ronverdonk]

My suggestion is just to split the variable into 2 parts using the length.
Calculate the middle of the string, do a strpos to find the 1st blank and calculate the length of the first part and the second part.

Do a [code]<tr><td>$first_part</td<td>$second_part</td></tr>[/code] at you are done.

Ronald  ;D

[Woodburn2006]

im quite new so could you please tell me how to split the text into 2 variables please?

[ronverdonk]

Just a sample (the table border set to 1 so you can see it is actually split):
[code]
<?php
$string = "This is a text stringandisnow to be split in 2 parts";
$length = strlen($string)/2;
$start=strpos(substr($string,$length),' ');
echo '<table border="1">';
echo '<tr><td>'.substr($string,0,$length+$start).'</td><td>'.substr($string,$length+$start).'</td></tr>';
echo '</table>';
?>[/code]

Ronald  ;D

[Chetan]

and wunt it leave a word half in 1 column & 1/2 in the other

[ronverdonk]

That is exactly why you must look for the first blank character after the first half of the text (using strpos)! So you don't split words but only on word boudary.

Ronald  ;D

[Woodburn2006]

cool, works fine, thanks alot

[Woodburn2006]

by using the method show above, is there any way of putting the 2 results as variables? i have tried but seem to get nowhere

[AndyB]

[code]<?php
$string = "This is a text stringandisnow to be split in 2 parts";
$length = strlen($string)/2;
$start=strpos(substr($string,$length),' ');

$part1 = substr($string,0,$length+$start);
$part2 = substr($string,$length+$start);
[/code]