How to creat a line break in a look

[nicedad]

Hello everyone,

 

Firstly, I'm not solving a home work or something like this, I'm just trying to fix a bug in code someone's written for me and hopfully I can fix it.

 

I have column (Job Beschreibung) in a table, in which one need to write text. Unfortunately, the written text appears in one line without breaks so that one's to scroll horizontally (see attached image). anyone of any help and advice how to fix this issue.

I attache the code also.

<form method="post">
<div class="row space30"> <!-- row 2 begins -->
	<div  class="col-md-12 text-center">
	  <?php
	
	$userCity = $objUser->getJobByLocation();
	?>
	<select name="search[location]" style="min-width: 150px;padding: 3px;margin-right:25px;">
	<option value="">Kanton auswählen</option>
	<?php
	if(!empty($userCity)) {
	foreach($userCity as $k=>$v) {
	?>
	<option value="<?php echo $userCity[$k]["location"]; ?>" <?php if($userCity[$k]["location"] == $location) { echo "selected"; } ?>><?php echo $userCity[$k]["location"]; ?></option>
	<?php
	}
	}
	?>
	</select>
	<?php
	$userOccupation = $objUser->getQualification();
	?>
	<select name="search[Jqualify]" style="min-width: 150px;padding: 3px;">
	<option value="">Beruf auswählen</option>
	<?php
	if(!empty($userOccupation)) {
	foreach($userOccupation as $k=>$v) {
	?>
	<option value="<?php echo $userOccupation[$k]["Jqualify"]; ?>" <?php if($userOccupation[$k]["Jqualify"] == $Jqualify) { echo "selected"; } ?>><?php echo $userOccupation[$k]["Jqualify"]; ?></option>
	<?php
	}
	}
	?>
	</select>
	<input type="submit" name="go" value="Search" style="border-color: none;border: 2px outset buttonface;padding: 2px 45px;margin-left: 20px;" >
	<input type="reset" value="Reset" style="border-color: none;border: 2px outset buttonface;padding: 2px 45px;margin-left: 10px;" onclick="window.location='jobs.php'">
	</div>
</div>
<?php
if(!empty($userList)) {
?>
      	<div class="row space5"> <!-- row 3 begins -->
		<div  class="col-md-12">
            <table class="table table-striped">
			<tr>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Firmenname</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Job Title</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Job Beschreibung</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Erfahrung</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Kanton</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Branche</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Job Type</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Qualifikation</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Vertragsart</th>
			<th style="width: 10%;">Gehalt/ Stunde</th></tr>
<?php

    foreach($userList as $i => $value) {
		if(is_numeric($i)) {
?>
<tr>
    <td><?php echo $userList[$i]["comp_name"]; ?></td>
	<td><?php echo $userList[$i]["jobtitle"]; ?></td>
    <td><?php echo $userList[$i]["job_description"]; ?></td>
    <td><?php echo $userList[$i]["minexp"]; ?> - <?php echo $userList[$i]["maxexp"]; ?></td>
	<td><?php echo $userList[$i]["location"]; ?></td>
	<td><?php echo $userList[$i]["Industry"]; ?></td>
	<td><?php echo $userList[$i]["Jtype"]; ?></td>
	<td><?php echo $userList[$i]["Jqualify"]; ?></td>
	<td><?php echo $userList[$i]["JContract"]; ?></td>
	<td><?php echo $userList[$i]["minsal"]; ?> - <?php echo $userList[$i]["maxsal"]; ?></td>

</tr>
<?php
		}
	}//for close
?>
		</table>
		</div>
		</div>

<?php if(!empty($userList["perpage"])) { ?>
	<div class="pagination center"><?php echo $userList["perpage"]; ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<?php
}//if close
?>
</form>

[Ch0cu3r]

Use nl2br

    <td><?php echo nl2br($userList[$i]["job_description"]); ?></td>

[nicedad]

Hi Ch0cu3r, thanks so much for the replay.

can you please advice where to add the line in  my code?

 

best,

[nicedad]

I  changed the line

 <?php echo $userList[$i]["job_description"]; ?>

to the line

td><?php echo nl2br($userList[$i]["job_description"]); ?></td>

 

as per your advice, unfortunately didn't work.

[boompa]

Use wordwrap on the output: https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php

[nicedad]

Hello boompa,  unfortunately didn't work either.

as per your link, it should be a string in the function. I could know how to add this in your function.

 

I inserted it in the function in the following way, is this right

<?php

$newtext = wordwrap($userList[$i]["job_description", 20, "<br />\n");

echo $newtext;
?>

[ginerjm]

When you declare your table, add specific col widths to it so that the format isn't determined by the browser.  Look up the <col> tag

[cyberRobot]

I would imagine that you're not going to get too many entries where you'll get a series of letters without spaces. With that said, you could try the word-wrap property in CSS:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/word-wrap

[nicedad]

for nothing guys, this is really strange

[QuickOldCar]

Maybe you are seeing old results in browser? try clearing the browser cache.

[ginerjm]

Strange?  What happened when you set your column widths as I suggested?

[valandor]

You can try using  chunck_split() something like $string = chunk_split($string, '128', '<br />'); This worked on a large string I randomly generated.

 

 The reason that the nl2br() method doesn't work for you is because there are no new lines (\r\n) in your string. nl2br() converts those new line characters to <br /> tags. If there are going to be new lines in your text you can use the nl2br().

 

You can use the word-wrap function as well. If it's going to be one long word like all of your a's you would want to set the optional Boolean at the end to true to cut a word at the breaking point, otherwise it's going to wait till the end of the word to add the <br /> character into it... So in your case of all the A's it'll add it in after the last "a" doing a whole lot of nothing for you.

Edited October 13, 2015 by valandor

[nicedad]

Hi guys,

problem solved,

 

thanks a lot for all of you, as your adds were very helpful.

Valando was right because  my test text hadn't any break therefore was taken as one word.

 

again thanks so much