i am writing a php code that displays text from a database.
how would i make the text auto break <br /> after a certain amount of chars?
please help asap. thanks
tcollins412 0 Junior Poster
lyrico 23 Junior Poster in Training
Can you give some example code for us to have an idea regarding your script?
nuttyniall 0 Newbie Poster
Hi
If its to format the output from the database would you not be better using css to wrap the text placed in a container??
You can wrap text using php using the following
<?php
$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />\n");
echo $newtext;
?>N
rajvinoth 0 Newbie Poster
Hi,
You can use the given code for auto break.It will automatically add br tag to the string.
<?php $string = nl2br($string); ?>
The above code will help you
kuink 0 Newbie Poster
Hi,
You can use the given code for auto break.It will automatically add br tag to the string.
<?php $string = nl2br($string); ?>The above code will help you
YES I agree with you just simply call this function
[B]nl2br()[/B]it will make line breaks on your record to a new line.
johnsteve.bravo 1 Light Poster
Simply use <br> tag in php code. For example, $myvar .= $Row.'<br>';
tcollins412 0 Junior Poster
none of those are working
nuttyniall 0 Newbie Poster
The last code i gave wraps nearest word to index 20 of the string
The following code will split the line and insert the break after the 20th character
<?php
$text = "lets have a look how many chars before this breaks the string and inputs a line break";
$newtext = chunk_split($text, 20, "<br />\n");
echo $text."<br/>";
echo $newtext;
?>OUTPUT
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body
lets have a look how many chars before this breaks the string and inputs a line break<br/>
lets have a look how<br />
many chars before t<br />
his breaks the strin<br />
g and inputs a line <br />
break<br />
</body>
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