breaks long string in drop down

[zohab]

Hi,

 

I have drop down and I want to break string in drop down.

 

 

<?php

function breakString($string, $delimeter = "<br />\n", $breakAt=15) {
$breaks = ceil(strlen($string) / $breakAt); // break every 15 characters
$newString = "";
for ($i=0; $i<$breaks; $i++) {
  $newString .= substr($string, ($i * $breakAt), $breakAt) . $delimeter;
}

return $newString;
}


?>
<select name="mydropdown">
<?php
$data = array("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa","bbbb","cccc","dddd","eeee","ffff","gggg","hhhh","iiii","jjjj");
for($i=0;$i<=sizeof($data);$i++)
{
?>

<option value="<?php echo $i; ?>"><?php echo breakString($data[$i],"<br/>\n",25) ?></option><?php
}
?>

</select>

[Buddski]

You cannot break a string in a select menu as far as I know.. You can however shrink it down and add a ... to the end and have the full string as the value of the option..

[oni-kun]

Yeah, Simple example being:

$var = "Longgggggggggggggggg";

if (strlen($var) > 5) {
   $var = substr($var, 0, 4)."..";
}
echo $var; //Long..

[Adam]

And to add, select options cannot span multiple lines.