How do i make line breaks without <br />??

[JJohnsenDK]

Hey

 

I have a input form where i type in alot of text, this text is then stored in the database. When i pull the data out of the database to show on the screen there are no line breaks. The text is just printed out in one long text.

 

How do i make automaticly line breaks without using <br />, when i type in the form input?

 

I tried this:

 

<?php
function get_gameday($news_subject){
$qry = mysql_query("SELECT news_news FROM fusion_news WHERE `news_subject` = '$news_subject'") or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array($qry);

$news_news = stripslashes($row['news_news']);
$news_news = nl2br($news_news);

return $news_news;
}

echo get_gameday("GameDay optakt: ACH - SIF");
?>

 

This script just returns the text in one long text without line breaks.

 

Hope someone can help.

[Orio]

Look into wordwrap().

 

I think using something like this would be good for you:

wordwrap($text, 60, "<br />");

 

Orio.

[skali]

Are you removing line breaks when you are inserting data into the database??

And are you typing in data and changing line by pressing enter?

 

nl2br() converts line breaks into <br> tags only, so if it is a very long line but no line breaks (enter button was never pressed) then nl2br() will not insert <BR>

[mbtaylor]

You could write a function which uses explode to split the string on a space which would create an array of words. Then loop through the array and insert a <br /> every Nth word.

 

e.g

 

$words = explode (" ", $string);
$numtoseparate = 10; #number of words before inserting a <br />

foreach ($words as $word) {
$i++;
print ($word);
if ($i == $numtoseparate) {
   print ("<br />");
} 
}

[Orio]

You could write a function which uses explode to split the string on a space which would create an array of words. Then loop through the array and insert a <br /> every Nth word.

 

e.g

 

$words = explode (" ", $string);
$numtoseparate = 10; #number of words before inserting a <br />

foreach ($words as $word) {
$i++;
print ($word);
if ($i == $numtoseparate) {
   print ("<br />");
} 
}

 

Or you could simply use wordwrap() that does that for you, just with more options (as I mentioned in my first post).

 

Orio.

[mbtaylor]

Does it? * Reads manual page.

 

Sorry to dupe your post then.