need help splitting up long text into multiple pages

acidbox

I have a long text file as an array. I want to basically split it up so that after a certain number of words, it will stop displaying and show a "next" link.

If you click the link, it would then pick up with the next word in the array and display it. This process would continue until the array was done.

Does anyone have anything like this, or have an idea of how I could get started on it?

Even if you just know how to split the string into words, and count the number of words, that would help too.

Thanks in advance.

michael

$mystring = "this is an example string with many many words... The BENCHMARK() function executes the expression expr repeatedly count times. It may be used to time how fast MySQL processes the expression. The result value is always 0. The intended use is in the mysql client, which reports query execution times.";

$mystring = explode(' ', $mystring);
$PERPAGE =20; // 20 words per page

if (!isset($START)) { $START =1 ; }

for ($a=$START; $a< $START+$PERPAGE; $a++) {
if ($a > count($mystring)) { break; }
print $mystring[$a];
}

Ok. I'm tired as sh*te. And I've been drinking [Red Bull]. But my code still make some sense. =)

acidbox

I was able to make it work using your code! Thank you so much!

I have one question though....

What If I want the text to only go a certain number of lines. And then go to the next page after that number of lines have been met. This way, the text would be evenly spaced out on each page, but would not necessarily have the same number of words per page. The table that the text is going into is is a fixed size. The width is 220 pixels and the height is 579 pixels.

Any idea on that?

acidbox

bump 🙂

michael

I was actually pretty drunk when I wrote that code. =)

switch ($typeofdispersion) {
case 'words':
$mystring = explode(' ', $mystring);
$PERPAGE =20; // 20 words per page
break;

default:
case 'sentences':
$mystring = explode('\n', $mystring); // if you stored data broken on \n, else use <br> or whatnot.
$PERPAGE =4; // 4 senetences ; standard parag. per page
break;

}