Re: cut off a string?
- From: Alex Farran <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Jun 2005 10:04:37 +0100
writes:
> Hey all,
> I have a small CMS tool that users can leave a max 200 characters message.
> everthing is fine but IF someone does something like this:
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> 200 characters long
> my whole layout bearks appart even when i use style="width:300px" etc
> so is there a premade function in php that splits my words?
Use wordwrap http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php
Example 2 does what you want -
<?php
$text = "A very long woooooooooooord.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "\n", 1);
echo "$newtext\n";
?>
This example would display:
A very
long
wooooooo
ooooord.
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