[SOLVED] how can i avoid long words on string??

[yami007]

when a user type a long word like ( helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllo ) or longer it may affect my layout.

i wanna avoid it at any cost ^^

thanks..

[Zane]

so you want a particular character length instead of a traditional character length

[yami007]

so you want a particular character length instead of a traditional character length

sorry, i dont quite understand !!

[MadTechie]

You could create a regex to break up these words but i feel this be down to your HTML/CSS !

 

here's a concept of adding a space after the 5th repeated letter

$para = "hellllllllllllllllllllo";
echo preg_replace('/(\w{5})(\1)/im', '\1 \2', $para);
//returns helllll llllllllll lllllo

[ShaunO]

A client side solution would be to assign the overflow-x: scroll property to the container of the text and setting a fixed width but otherwise the regex solution above ^^ should cause the words to wrap properly.

[ReKoNiZe]

Or maybe he wants like:

 

if(strlen($variable) > 12)
      echo 'String is too long, try again';
else
      echo 'Your string is short enough, you may enter';

 

[MadTechie]

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[yami007]

You could create a regex to break up these words but i feel this be down to your HTML/CSS !

 

here's a concept of adding a space after the 5th repeated letter

$para = "hellllllllllllllllllllo";
echo preg_replace('/(\w{5})(\1)/im', '\1 \2', $para);
//returns helllll llllllllll lllllo

can i do this for a text?? in textarea

[MadTechie]

of course but i would only use it for output,

 

$para = $_POST['elementName'];

 

in truth i would use CSS