Displaying a single entry in two separate places

[Jane04k]

I have a database entry that's super long (an entire first chapter of a book) and I want to display it on the top left side of a div until it reaches the bottom and then, after it reaches the bottom of the div, have it automatically flow into another separate div. This would occur on paginated pages so I'd need it to continue flowing to the next page then do the same auto flow thing again. Picture a book that reads from left to right and that's basically what I'm trying to do. Is this possible with php? Is this possible period?

[chigley]

Depends at what point you want to split it really. Do you want half in one, half in the other? Or x chars in the first, and the remainder in the other?

[Jane04k]

x chars or words would work just fine. My main problem is that I can't figure out how to have it automatically flow to the next cell.

[chigley]

<?php

$wordsinfirst = "2";

$string = "one two three four";

$words = explode(" ", $string);

foreach($words as $word) {
if($count < $wordsinfirst) {
  $string1 .= "$word ";
} else {
  $string2 .= "$word ";
}

$count++;
}

echo "<div id=\"first\">$string1</div><div id=\"second\">$string2</div>";

?>

[Jane04k]

awesome - works great! thanks for the help. :-)

[chigley]

You're welcome! Remember to click solved